My Own Words about Marie Curie

Introducton

Marie Curie was a famous scientist who researched polonium and radium (those are dangerous radioactive substances ). She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize, she discovered the radioactive elements "radium" and "pollonium".

Her Early Life

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She received a general education from father, both her parents were patriotic, Polish teachers. Her sister, Zozia and her mother both died when she was young, she was very shocked and saddened by those deaths. Her family believed in a good education so she moved to Paris when she was 24.

Professional Career


She started studying fresh and inspired by the recent discovery of radioactivity in 1896 thanks to Henry Becquerel. In Paris she met Pierre Curie, a physics teacher at the Sorbonne, they were soon married. She succeeded her husband as the head of the Physics Labratory at the Sorbonne. In 1903 she shared her first Nobel prize with Henry Becquerel for contributing to the discovery of radioactivity. As her and her husband's laboratory was cramped and difficult to conduct experiments in, it was a miracle she was able to do any at all. She won her second Nobel prize for the discovery of Radium and Polonium. In 1929 President Hoover gave her 50,000 dollars to continue her research. She had two daughters, Irene and Helene. They were a happy family until one day Pierre was run over by a horse drawn wagon. She died on July 4, 1934 of aplastic anemia due to radiation poisoning.

How her Science Impacted the World

Marie Curie lived to be one of the most famous, important people in the world; she won two Nobel Prizes (she was the first person to do so) and revolutionized medical treatment( those elements are used to treat cancer ) and the way people thought about matter, radioactivity, and overall science. She also inspired her daughter, Irene Curie about science, she too won a Nobel Prize for her work with radioactivity.