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Marie Curie

Marie Curie

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Marie Curie

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  1. Marie Curie By Elijah Conner

  2. 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 anaemia, a condition she developed after years of exposure to radiation through her work. Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher.

  3. Marie Curie is considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only person to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences: physics and chemistry. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity and changed the way scientists understood the atom. She was the youngest of five children. The family lived in difficult circumstances and Marie Curie often went without meals. However, she did her best at school and was encouraged by her mother to study hard so that one day she could become a teacher and help others in need. She named the element 'polonium' after Poland. In her native Poland, there was a shortage of food and many people were dying from hunger. Marie Curie wanted to do something to help the situation in Poland and chose to name the element after her home country. This was an affront to Russia, who ruled Poland at the time.

  4. One of the most impressive Marie Curie facts: at the outbreak of the First World War, Marie Curie created and transported over 200 x-ray machines into the field hospitals. Albert Einstein once said of Curie, 'She helped humanity greatly by her work'. https://youtu.be/g1W4MHlEqZE

  5. Marie Curie opened research centres in both Paris and Warsaw. These centres helped to train the next generation of scientists and continue her work on radioactivity. They also helped to make sure that women could study science and become important members of the scientific community. LATER YEARS After the war, she worked hard to raise money for her Radium Institute. However,by 1920, she was suffering from health issues, most likely because of her exposure to radioactive materials. On July 4, 1934, Curie died of aplastic anemia — a condition that occurs when the bone marrow fails to produce new blood cells. Curie’s doctor concluded that her “bone marrow could not react probably because it had been injured by a long accumulation of radiations,” according to historian Craig Nelson in his book “The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era” (Scribner, 2014).

  6. *https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie- curie/biographical/ * https://scientificwomen.net/women/curie-marie-8

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