early life and education
What was Marie's nickname growing up?
Manya
Who was the person remembered to have an affair with?
Paul Langevin
What elements did Marie and Pierre Curie discover?
Polonium and Radium
What year was dynamite invented?
1886
What is Polonium named after?
Poland, the homeland of Marie Curie
What did Marie work as in order to pay for her sisters college?
a governess
What press found intimate letters exchanged between Langevin and Curie?
French Press
What Did Marie Curie win her Nobel prizes for?
her 1st was in Physics for discovering radiation and her 2nd was in chemistry for the discovery and research of Polonium and Radium.
Who got Alfred Nobel interested in explosives?
Immanuel Nobel
What kind of people was the Paris Pantheon exclusive to in the past?
Men who made contributions to society
Why did Maria change her name to Marie
To seem more French
Who was Marie Curie's friend when she left to England?
Hertha Ayrton
What were Marie's radiology vehicles called by French Soldiers?
Petites Curies
What was the explosive substance used in dynamite?
Nitroglycerin
Which innovation/s helped detect and eradicate cancer?
Radium and the x-ray machine
What was the name of the biography Eve Curie wrote?
Madame Curie
What did the public accuse Marie or being after hearing the love scandal?
A seductive Jew and/or tarnishing her husband's name
What did Marie do at the Radium institute?
taught WWI nurses about Radiology and researched radiation's effect on tumors
What languages did Nobel speak?
English, French, German, and Russian
How does radiation therapy work?
Radon gas emitted from radium kills cancer cells in the body curing the patient
When did Marie and Pierre get married?
June 26, 1895
What did Marie Curie forbid Irene to do when she was recovering?
She forbade her from addressing her as Marie Curie
When did Marie Curie die and what was the cause?
July 4, 1934, she died of aplastic anemia (due to her exposure to so much radiation)
What were the original 5 Nobel prize categories?
Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Literature, and physiology and medicine.
What are ALL of Polonium's uses as listed in its slide?
Trigger for the 1940's atomic bomb, elimination of static electricity in machinery, to remove dust from photographic film, heat source for thermoelectric power in spacecraft