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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
1,161 wordsWhy was Marie Curie a significant woman in European Science? Marie Curie was the most successful scientist to come out of Poland. She saw science as a beauty that she wanted to withhold. # Science to her was an unknown fairy tale phenomena that she was determined to discover. Marie Curie wanted to use science to help others, and the world. She accomplished this by working in World War I, and discovering radium, and polonium. Marie Curies discovery of polonium was a great scientific finding. This...
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University Of Paris Marie Curie
539 wordsMarie Curie was born youngest of five children in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She was well-taught by both her mother, Bronsilawa, a teacher, and her father, Wladyslaw, a professor of mathematics and physics. Marie continued her study of mathematical sciences at the University of Paris in 1891. While working in distinguished laboratory of Gabriel Lippman, she met her husband Pierre Curie. Their marriage (July 25, 1895) marked the start of a partnership that was soon to achieve results of ...
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World War Ii Marie And Pierre
2,635 wordsIrene Irene Joliot-Curie IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist daughter Helene, who was married to Paul Langevin's grandson, and by biochemist son Pierre Joliot. She was also overshadowed by her non-scientist sister Eve De...
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Marie Curie Henri Becquerel
881 wordsLIFE Marie Curie MARIE CURIE LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre, who was also a French physicist, are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie, originally named Marja Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw, Poland on Nov. 7, 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Maries father must have taught his daughter well because in ...
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Henri Becquerel Nobel Prize
770 wordsMarie Sklodowska Curie Polish-French Chemist (1867 - 1934) Marie Sklodowska Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a physics teacher and her mother was a principal at a girls school in Warsaw. She had three sisters (Sofia, Helena, Bronislaw a) and a brother Joseph. Marie, ever since her earliest years, was interested in reading and physics since her father was a physics teacher. After finishing high school, Marie went on to Paris because of the fact that she couldn ...
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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
1,172 wordsWhy was Marie Curie a significant woman in European Science? Marie Curie was the most successful scientist to come out of Poland. She saw science as a beauty that she wanted to withhold. # Science to her was an unknown fairy tale phenomena that she was determined to discover. Marie Curie wanted to use science to help others, and the world. She accomplished this by working in World War I, and discovering radium, and polonium. Marie Curie? s discovery of polonium was a great scientific finding. Th...
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Long Term Effects World War Ii
2,387 wordsRadium is a silver-white, highly radioactive element. It? s atomic number is 88, and it is the heaviest alkali earth metal, having a mass number of 226. 025 (See Figure 1). Radium has at least twenty six isotopes, and all are radioactive (Shriver 1995). Since radium is chemically similar to calcium and magnesium, it is absorbed by the bones of animals. Once in the bones, it emits alpha, beta, and gamma rays (Shriver 1993). These rays shrink or destroy tissues and they are the reason radium is so...
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