Early Life
Where was Marie Curie born?
Warsaw, Poland
What two elements did Marie and Pierre discover?
Polonium and Radium
This scientist discovered radiation, sparking an interest in Marie and Pierre to further investigate it.
Henri Antione Becquerel
Radium is useful in treating this disease.
Cancer
Marie Curie's husband's name is_____.
What University did Marie Curie attend?
Sorbonne
What mineral did Marie refine to purify radium so she can have measurable amounts?
Pitchblende
Marie Curie coined the term ______.
Radioactivity
The bones react to radium in a similar way they react to this mineral.
Calcium
Marie Curie was born as ______.
Maria Sklodowska
Where is Sorbonne?
Paris
Marie Curie thought pitchblende contained at least one other element because it was much more radioactive than this element.
Uranium
Becquerel discovered that _____ salts were emitting penetrative rays.
Uranic
Radium-226 decays via _____.
Alpha Decay
Marie Curie died of this disease.
pernicious anemia
In 1903, Marie got her doctorate of what subject?
Science
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in this year.
1911
Marie Curie discovered that radiation is a(n) _____ property.
Atomic
An alpha particle has the amount of protons as a(n) ______ atom.
Helium
Marie used most of the money from her 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to buy these.
War bonds
At Sorbonne, Marie became the head of this laboratory after her husband.
Physics
Marie Curie was the first ______ to teach at Sorbonne.
Woman
Marie and Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in this year.
1903
Radium's ___ ___ ____ makes it very radioactive.
large atomic radius
Radium-226 has a half-life of _____ years.
1600