Marie Curie
“The Nobel Prize winner”
Marie Sklodowska was born on November 7, 1957 in Warsaw. As a young girl, her father trained her in science sparking her interest in the subject. Marie Sklodowska left her homeland to seek higher education opportunities in Paris, France. In Paris, she met Pierre Curie, a professor at the School of Physics, and they got married in 1895. They had two daughters named Irene and Eve.
Both Pierre and Marie teamed up to make some of the most innovative research in radioactivity. They both won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903, as well as, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Later, in 1906, her husband Pier died in a horse wagon accident.
After her husband’s accidental death, she took his position at the university, becoming the first women to hold this position. Marie continued to do research and, in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her work on radium. She was the first person who won two Nobel Prizes. In 1914, she became the director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. In 1921, she was recognized for her contributions to science by American women; thus, she was presented one gram of Radium by the president of the United States at the time, President Harding.
Because of the extensive exposure to radiation, Marie Sklodowska Curie died of leukemia on July 4, 1934; she was 67 when she died. Her daughter Irene also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Favorite Quotes:
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the sametime, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty beingto aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
Books about Marie Curie:
Marie Sklodowska was born on November 7, 1957 in Warsaw. As a young girl, her father trained her in science sparking her interest in the subject. Marie Sklodowska left her homeland to seek higher education opportunities in Paris, France. In Paris, she met Pierre Curie, a professor at the School of Physics, and they got married in 1895. They had two daughters named Irene and Eve.
Both Pierre and Marie teamed up to make some of the most innovative research in radioactivity. They both won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903, as well as, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Later, in 1906, her husband Pier died in a horse wagon accident.
After her husband’s accidental death, she took his position at the university, becoming the first women to hold this position. Marie continued to do research and, in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her work on radium. She was the first person who won two Nobel Prizes. In 1914, she became the director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. In 1921, she was recognized for her contributions to science by American women; thus, she was presented one gram of Radium by the president of the United States at the time, President Harding.
Because of the extensive exposure to radiation, Marie Sklodowska Curie died of leukemia on July 4, 1934; she was 67 when she died. Her daughter Irene also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Favorite Quotes:
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the sametime, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty beingto aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
Books about Marie Curie:
Marie Curie: A Life
by Susan Quinn
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
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