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The Life of Marie Curie
This is my research paper on the life of Marie Curie and her developments. Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, under the name of Maria Sklodowska. Her parents were both teachers and she had five siblings. Marie was a very smart student as she was the top student in her secondary school. She could not go to the University of Warsaw because it was a men-only school, instead she went to Warsaw’s “floating university” which are informal classes that are held in secret. In 1891, Curie enrolled at Sorbonne in Paris and got her master’s degree in 1893 and a master’s in mathematics in 1894 (biography.com). Marie Curie met her husband, Pierre Curie, after they were introduced to each other …show more content…

She wanted for there to be x-rays on the battlefields for the wounded soldiers. The issue with that is that there needed to be a source of electricity for the x-ray. She had come up with a design in which the cars that she put the x-rays in had generators hooked up to the engine of the car. This would then create the electrical power that was needed to power the x-rays. She had trouble getting funded by the French government so she got her funding from The Union of Women of France. The first place that her car was used was in the Battle of Marne in 1914. It played a very important in helping save the lives of many wounded soldiers. After the victory of that war she asked wealthy Parisian women for vehicles and she ended up with 20. The issue with this is that she had no trained operators to operate the x-rays. She had trained women volunteers to operate the vehicles and by the end of the war she had trained a total of 150 women to operate vehicles. These women also had to learn how to fix the vehicle itself. When the women were trained they would go out to war to help the wounded soldiers. The name that was given to the x-ray vehicles was “Little Curies”. Without the use of her x-ray vehicles the war could have had a very different end for France …show more content…

Marie did not accept as she was capable of taking care of herself and her children without the pension. On that same day Marie Curie was also offered the position that her husband had at Sorbonne University. She accepted the offer in hopes of creating a state-of-the-art laboratory (history.aip.org).
Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She won this prize “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”. The award was split between her and her husband into fourths as they were both involved in the findings of radiation. Half of the prize went to Henri Becquerel who was the one who initially discovered radioactivity (nobelprize.org).
Marie Curie was awarded another Nobel Prize but this time it was in Chemistry in 1911. She won this award in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". She was the only one to win the prize because she discovered radium and polonium

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