Biography
November 7, 1867
What is Marie Curie's birth date?
Here is where Pierre and Marie started their discoveries into invisible rays given off by uranium.
What is the School of Chemistry and Physics?
In 1903 Marie and Pierre were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. They received it with this man, although they worked separately on radioactivity.
Who is Henri Becquerel?
Marie's small, mobile x-ray machines taken to battlefronts.
What is "Petite Curies?"
The area of Poland Marie was born.
What is Warsaw?
Marie found this new element that was 330 times more radioactive than uranium.
What is polonium?
Marie was the first woman in France to receive her PhD in this science.
What is Physics?
The number of more permanent x-ray machines set up by Marie and her daughter during the war.
What are 200?
What is Sorbonne University in Paris?
Marie and Pierre found this liquid left behind that was more radioactive than polonium.
What is radium?
After her husband was killed, Marie took his place doing this work.
What is a professor at Sorbonne?
Marie and her daughter Irene had set up a training programs here to teach 150 women to operate the x-ray machines and read the film.
What is the Radium Institute?
She married this scientist working in the city, who later also became her colleague.
Who is Pierre Curie?
The year Marie isolated radium into radium chloride.
What is 1902?
Marie won her 2nd Nobel Prize in this year for her discoveries in measuring radioactivity.
What is 1911?
Eventually, Marie passed away due to aplastic anemia. This blood disorder is caused by...
What is overexposure to x-rays?