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What is the relation between Marie and Pierre?
Husband & Wife
100
Where did the majority of the Curie's research take place?
Paris, France
100
Name one of the elements they discovered:
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100
Which element is more hazardous? Polonium or Radium
Polonium
100
Where was Marie the first female professor at?
University of Paris
200
Where was Marie Curie born?
Warsaw, Poland
200
What element did they base all of their research off of?
uranium
200
Name one of the elements they discovered:
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200
If Marie didn't exist, what medical device would we not have today?
An X-Ray
200
What was Polonium named after?
Marie's homeland (Poland)
300
What two subjects did they win Nobel Prizes for?
Chemistry & Physics
300
What two substances did they discover had the most radioactivity in uranium?
bismuth & barium
300
What did Marie establish her own theory of?
Radioactivity
300
What is the purpose of the "Radium Institute"? (now known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology)
The institute carries out specialized cancer research and treatment.
300
What was significant about Marie earning a Nobel Prize?
She was the first woman in history to do so
400
What did Pierre invent?
electrometer device
400
What is the 'Curie Point'?
The Curie Point is a temperature level where ferromagnetic substances lose their ferromagnetic behavior
400
What institute did Marie Curie establish that carries out cancer research?
The Radium Institute
400
Which element did the Curies discover that helps with CANCER and SKIN treatments today?
Radium
400
What was radium named after?
its intense radioactivity
500
What did Pierre study before he met Marie?
crystals & symmetry in nature
500
What is the Curie Law?
The Curie Law is the that the magnetic behaviors of most paramagnetic substances are inversely proportional to their absolute temperatures.
500
What type of isotopes did they isolate?
radioactive isotopes
500
Which element did the Curies discover that is found in nuclear weapons?
Polonium
500
In what year did Marie establish the Radium Institute?
1932
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