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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Madame Curie''' was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who pioneered the study of the radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.<br />
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== Early Life and Education ==<br />
Maria Skłodowska was born in 1867 in Warsaw in the Russian partition of Poland. Her family were teachers and the household valued the education.<br />
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She studied at the clandestine Flying University in Warsaw. She worked as a governess to support the studies of her elder sister.<br />
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She went to Paris in 1891 and studied at the Sorbonne. She took the degrees in the physics and the mathematics.<br />
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== The Discovery of the Radioactivity ==<br />
She married Pierre Curie in 1895 and the couple collaborated on the research. She investigated the rays emitted by the uranium.<br />
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She discovered that the thorium also emitted the rays and coined the term radioactivity. She found that the mineral pitchblende was more radioactive than the pure uranium.<br />
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She and Pierre isolated the new elements polonium and radium in 1898. The polonium was named for her native Poland.<br />
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They processed tons of the pitchblende to obtain a small amount of the radium. The work was arduous and the conditions were poor.<br />
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== The Nobel Prizes and the Career ==<br />
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with Henri Becquerel. The award recognised the discovery of the radioactivity.<br />
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Pierre died in 1906 and Marie took his professorship at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to teach at the university.<br />
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She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of the radium and the polonium. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.<br />
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She founded the Radium Institute in Paris in 1914. The institute became a centre for the research and the treatment of the cancer.<br />
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== The Later Years and the Legacy ==<br />
Marie Curie served in the First World War and equipped the mobile radiography units. The units were used to treat the wounded soldiers.<br />
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She suffered from the effects of the radiation and died in 1934 from the aplastic anaemia. Her notebooks remain radioactive and are stored in the lead-lined boxes.<br />
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Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize. The family is one of the most decorated of the scientific history.<br />
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She is regarded as one of the greatest of the scientists. The element curium and the institutions are named in her honour.<br />
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== The Isolation of the Elements ==<br />
Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the polonium and the radium in 1898. They processed tons of the pitchblende to obtain the small amounts.<br />
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The work was arduous and the conditions were poor. The laboratory was a shed with the leaking roof.<br />
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The discovery of the radium was a landmark of the science. The element was used in the medicine and the industry.<br />
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== The Nobel Prizes and the Institute ==<br />
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Marie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.<br />
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She founded the Radium Institute in Paris in 1914. The institute became a centre for the research and the treatment of the cancer.<br />
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She served in the First World War and equipped the mobile radiography units. The units were used to treat the wounded soldiers.<br />
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== The Later Years ==<br />
Marie Curie served in the First World War and equipped the mobile radiography units. The units were used to treat the wounded soldiers.<br />
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She suffered from the effects of the radiation and died in 1934. Her notebooks remain radioactive and are stored in the lead-lined boxes.<br />
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Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize. The family is one of the most decorated of the scientific history.<br />
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== The Legacy and the Memory ==<br />
Marie Curie is regarded as one of the greatest of the scientists. The element curium and the institutions are named in her honour.<br />
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She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.<br />
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She founded the Radium Institute in Paris. The institute continues the research and the treatment of the cancer.<br />
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== The Discovery of the Radioactivity ==<br />
Marie Curie investigated the rays emitted by the uranium. She discovered that the thorium also emitted the rays.<br />
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She coined the term radioactivity. She found that the pitchblende was more radioactive than the pure uranium.<br />
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She and Pierre isolated the polonium and the radium. The polonium was named for her native Poland.<br />
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== The Personal Life ==<br />
Marie married Pierre Curie in 1895. The couple collaborated on the research and the marriage was happy.<br />
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Pierre died in 1906 in a street accident. Marie took his professorship at the Sorbonne.<br />
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She died in 1934 from the aplastic anaemia. Her notebooks remain radioactive.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* Radioactivity<br />
* Radium<br />
* Nobel Prize<br />
* Nuclear physics<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<ref name="r1">Curie, Eve. Madame Curie. New York: Doubleday, 1937.</ref><br />
<ref name="r2">Quinn, Susan. Marie Curie: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.</ref><br />
<ref name="r3">Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. New York: Norton, 2005.</ref><br />
<ref name="r4">Curie, Marie. Pierre Curie. New York: Macmillan, 1923.</ref><br />
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