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1867/1906

MARIE CURIE

by Léo.T

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"Nothing in life is be to feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Marie Curie

1. Cover

7. Nobel Prizes

8. Life in Paris

2. Quote

index

9. Death

3. Early years

4. Pierre & Marie Curie

5. Work

6. Discoveries

EARly years

  • Her given name was "Marya Sklodowska" but her family and friends called her "Little Marya".
  • Her father was a professor of maths and physics.
  • Her mother was a pianist, singer and teacher. She died of tuberculosis when Marya was 11
  • Graduated high-school when she was 15
  • In 1981, she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris as "Marie", and graduated in 1893

PIERRE & MARIE CURIE

She married Pierre Curie in July 1895.Together they opened the door to the study of radioactivity

WORK

She decided that her thesis for her doctorate would be on Henri Becquerl's mysterious "x-rays" that are given off by uranium

DISCOVERies

URANIUM

RADIOACTIVITY

DIscovered that if you have a certain amount of uranium, then you get a certain amount of ray intensity.

Marie discovered that there was something going on inside the atom that created the rays, she name this effect "radioactivity"

NOBEL PRIZES

  • In 1903, she earned the Nobel Prize in physics for her pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity", a term she coined.
  • Marie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotops.

LIFE IN PARIS

1906

1920

In 1906, Pierre Curie died in a Paris street accident. It was decided that Marie should take over Pierre's teaching job at the Sorbonne.

This made Maire the first woman professor at any French University. In 1920, she founded the Curie institue in Paris.

DEATH

Marie eventually contracted lukemia and died at the aged of 66 in 1934 from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and her radiological work during world war.At least, she is: - the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize - the 1st person and the only women to win the Nobel Prize twice - the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fiedls

¡THANK YOU!

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