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Alfred Nobel & the Prizes
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What year was Marie Curie born?
November 7th, 1867
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Marie Curie became a physicist and ________ in the study of radiology
A Chemist
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What two elements did Marie Curie discover?
Radium and Polonium
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Who did people think did all of the work actually made by Marie Curie?
Her husband Pierre
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When was Alfred Nobel born?
October 21, 1833
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What two school subjects did Marie Curie's father instruct?
Math & Physics
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Marie Curie earned her doctor of science degree in what year?
1903
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What did she realize x-rays could be used for?
Examining what was wrong with soldiers
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Marie Curie was the first two win two ____ _____.
Nobel Prizes
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What did Alfred Nobel invent that was intended for one thing but used for war?
He invented dynamite.
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Her mother and eldest sister died of what two diseases?
Typhus & Tuberculosis
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At what school did Marie Curie have her first job?
Municipal School of Physics and Chemistry
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Fill in the blank. "She realized there were undiscovered ______ in pitchblende."
Elements
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In 1903 she won her first Nobel Prize in physics due to her contribution in the work of ________?
Radiation
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The Nobel Prize is awarded annually without regard of what?
Nationality & Gender
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How many children did she have, and what were their names?
She had two, and their names were Irène Joliot-Curie & Ève Curie
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What year did Marie and Pierre get married?
1895
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In what year did she start promoting her portable x-ray machines?
1914
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What type of Nobel Award did Marie Curie receive in 1911 and for discovering what?
She received the Chemistry Nobel Prize and for discovering the two elements radium and polonium.
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Where does the prize money come from and how much is it worth?
The Nobel foundation, and it is worth $1,400,000.
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Why did Marie Curie go to France to attend college in 1891?
After high school women in poland did/ could not attend college
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At what school did she become a professors after the death of her husband?
The Sorbonne University
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what was the reasoning for why she named radium, "radium"... and polonium, "polonium"?
She named radium, "radium" because it had a lot of rays and polonium "polonium" because it was named after Poland
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What research facility did Marie Curie found in 1921 and what was it for?
She founded the Curie institution and it was to help research about cancer.
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What are the six types of Nobel prizes a scientist can be awarded?
-peace -literature -physics -chemistry -physiology or medicine -economic science
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