Marie Curie: A Life (Radcliffe Biography Series)

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As one of the most famous scientists in history, Marie Curie has become an icon in the scientific world and has received tributes from across the globe, even in the realm of pop culture. [84] She also received many honorary degrees from universities across the world. [65] Mould, R. F. (1998). "The discovery of radium in 1898 by Maria Sklodowska-Curie (1867–1934) and Pierre Curie (1859–1906) with commentary on their life and times". The British Journal of Radiology. 71 (852): 1229–54. doi: 10.1259/bjr.71.852.10318996. PMID 10318996.

Nelson, Craig (2014). The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era. Simon & Schuster. p.18. ISBN 978-1-4516-6045-6. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017 . Retrieved 24 January 2016. Monika Piątkowska, Prus: Śledztwo biograficzne (Prus: A Biographical Investigation), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Znak, 2017, ISBN 978-83-240-4543-3, pp. 49–50. A storybook which helps to answer some of the questions children might have about death, by telling the story of a water bug who turns into a dragonfly. ESPCI Paris: Prestige". www.espci.fr. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017 . Retrieved 26 September 2017. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front, a French-Belgian film, directed by Alain Brunard [ fr] and starring Dominique Reymond.

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L. Pearce Williams (1986). "Curie, Pierre and Marie". Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 8 . Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, Inc. p.331. Marie Sklodowska, as she was called before marriage, was born in Warsaw in 1867. Both her parents were teachers who believed deeply in the importance of education. Marie had her first lessons in physics and chemistry from her father. She had a brilliant aptitude for study and a great thirst for knowledge; however, advanced study was not possible for women in Poland. Marie dreamed of being able to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, but this was beyond the means of her family. To solve the problem, Marie and her elder sister, Bronya, came to an arrangement: Marie should go to work as a governess and help her sister with the money she managed to save so that Bronya could study medicine at the Sorbonne. When Bronya had taken her degree she, in her turn, would contribute to the cost of Marie’s studies.

The physical and societal aspects of the Curies' work contributed to shaping the world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. [82] Cornell University professor L. Pearce Williams observes: They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity.

Marie Curie Facts". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019 . Retrieved 2 March 2019. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. [85] Awards and honours that she received include:

When Marie lived in Poland girls were not allowed to go to university, so her parents had to send her in secret. a b "Marie Curie – Recognition and Disappointment (1903–1905) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011 . Retrieved 7 November 2011. Miłosz, Czesław (1983). The History of Polish Literature. University of California Press. p.291. ISBN 978-0-520-04477-7. Undoubtedly the most important novelist of the period was Bolesław Prus... She trained young women in simple X-ray technology, she herself drove one of the vans and took an active part in locating metal splinters. Sometimes she found she had to give the doctors lessons in elementary geometry. Irène, when 18, became involved, and in the primitive conditions both of them were exposed to large doses of radiation. Ramstedt, Eva, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Kosmos. Papers on Physics (in Swedish) published by Svenska Fysikersamfundet, nr 12, 1934.a b c d e f g h i j k l "Marie Curie– Student in Paris (1891–1897) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011 . Retrieved 7 November 2011. Provides a range of ideas for parents and carers so that they feel able to involve their children in what is happening. The book also includes some suggestions about what parents might say to children and how to offer support. Despite Curie's fame as a scientist working for France, the public's attitude tended toward xenophobia—the same that had led to the Dreyfus affair—which also fuelled false speculation that Curie was Jewish. [25] [51] During the French Academy of Sciences elections, she was vilified by the right-wing press as a foreigner and atheist. [51] Her daughter later remarked on the French press's hypocrisy in portraying Curie as an unworthy foreigner when she was nominated for a French honour, but portraying her as a French heroine when she received foreign honours such as her Nobel Prizes. [25] Robert William Reid (1974). Marie Curie. New American Library. p.24. ISBN 978-0-00-211539-1. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016 . Retrieved 15 March 2016. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( / ˈ k j ʊər i/ KURE-ee, [4] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. [5]

While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames, [8] [9] never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. [10] She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native country. [a] Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy ( Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anemia likely from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. [12] In addition to her Nobel Prizes, she received numerous other honours and tributes; in 1995 she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Paris Panthéon, [13] and Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie during the International Year of Chemistry. She is the subject of numerous biographical works. Sources vary concerning the field of her second degree. Tadeusz Estreicher, in the 1938 Polski słownik biograficzny entry, writes that, while many sources state she earned a degree in mathematics, this is incorrect, and that her second degree was in chemistry. [14] Marie worked hard to find a cure for cancer - nobody knew that working with radium was dangerous. But it was and because of this Marie became very ill and died. Marie married another scientist, Pierre. They worked together to find out about the tiny parts, called elements, that make up everything in our Universe.Nobel Lectures including Presentation Speeches and Laureates’ Biographies, Chemistry 1901-21. Published for the Nobel Foundation in 1967 by Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam-London-New York.