Marie curie

 

Maria Salomea Skłodowska

BORN

Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. 

                                                             Family

Her parents, Bronisława and Władysław, were both teachers, and her father lectured in maths and physics – both subjects that Maria went on to pursue herself.

                                                          Education

She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work.Skłodowska had begun her scientific career in Paris with an investigation of the magnetic properties of various steels,

                                   Why did marie curie change her name 

Three years later in Paris, Maria met her research partner and future husband Pierre Curie, a tutor at the School of Physics and Chemistry. When they married in 1895, Curie changed her name to Marie Skłodowska-Curie, preferring to keep the Polish part of her name, rather than simply take her husband's.

                                              

                                       What is Marie Curie Famous For 

 Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

Here are five fantastic facts about the amazing scientist.

• Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
• She managed it all without a fancy lab.
• Nobel Prizes were a family affair.
• Curie was the first female professor at Sorbonne University.
• Curie is buried in the Panthéon in Paris.

                                                         AWARDS

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. Awards that she received include:

• Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel)^[25]
• Davy Medal (1903, with Pierre)
• Matteucci Medal (1904, with Pierre)
• Actonian Prize (1907)
• Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)

Entities that have been named in her honor include:

• The curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in honor of her and Pierre Curie (although the commission which agreed on the name never clearly stated whether the standard was named after Pierre, Marie, or both).
• The element with atomic number 96 was named curium.
• Three radioactive minerals are also named after the Curies: curite, sklodowskite, and cuprosklodowskite.and more 

                                       Death

1935 statue, facing the Radium Institute, Warsaw

On 4 July 1934, at the Sancellemoz Sanatorium in Passy, France at the age of 66, Marie Curie died. The cause of her death was given as aplastic pernicious anemia, a condition she developed after years of exposure to radiation through her work.