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List of Partners vendors. Marie Curie, along with her husband Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity; a finding that paved the way for both the diagnosis via X-rays and treatment of cancer radiation therapy in medicine.
As a woman who was barred from being a member of the French Academy of Sciences due to her gender, she was still the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes for her efforts. While her research on radioactivity had a great impact on the practice of medicine that continues today , the lack of understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation at the time led to her eventual death.
Let's take a look at the life, education, and discoveries made by this amazing scientist. Family fortunes were not great, and Maria lost her mother at age twelve from tuberculosis. Even while her mother was alive, however, she received little affection from her mother, who was afraid she would infect her children. Maria's older sister, Zofia, tried to mother Maria following their mother's death, but she in turn died at the age of 15 from typhus. When she was 10 years old, Maria moved to attend boarding school in Warsaw.
Later, she was able to study in Paris at the Sorbonne with her sister's support. In addition to studying in Paris, Marie took courses in secret from the Floating University, an underground educational institution in politically turbulent Poland that educated women, and later also men. Determined to work and make progress in her chosen field of science, Maria studied and practiced physics and chemistry — subjects her father had taught.
In , Marie earned her second degree; this one in mathematics. Pierre Curie, an instructor of physics and chemistry. Briefly separated when Marie returned to Poland, the two were married about a year later. Marie and Pierre had three children. Irene was born in A baby girl she delivered in died shortly after birth. Their last daughter, Eva, was born in Sadly, on April 19, , tragedy struck again and Pierre was killed in a road accident.
Henri Becquerel soon discovered radioactivity while studying uranium salts. Marie took up the study of uranium rays, using a Curie electrometer. She was able to show that pitchblende, torbernite, and thorium were all radioactive.
She published a research paper on her discovery, an unusual step for a woman in Pierre set aside his own research and joined Marie in her work. By the summer of , the Curies co-authored a paper on a new element, polonium. The day after Christmas , a second paper came out, announcing the discovery of another new element: radium.
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