Discoveries
Marie Curie discovered this element in 1898.
What is radium?
Marie Curie was born in this Polish city in 1867.
What is Warsaw?
Irène and Ève are relatet to Marie curie how.
Who were Marie curies daughters?
Marie Curie was the first women to win this award and the first person in history to win the award twice.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This famous scientist with weird hair met and supported Marie Curie.
Who was Albert Einstein?
Marie Curie coined this term to describe the energy given off by unstable elements.
What is radioactivity?
Since women were not allowed to enroll in universities in Poland Marie and her sister attended this secret school.
What was the Flying University?
Marie was younger than Zofia, Józef, Bronia, and Helena.
Who were Marie Curie's siblings?
Aplastic anemia caused by long term exposer to radium.
How did Marie Curie die?
Marie Curie's notebooks still emit so much radioactivity they must be kept in this object.
What is a lead lined box?
Marie Curie discovered that this element emited rays of radioactivity before discovering polonium and radium.
What is thorium?
In 1891 Marie began her scientific studies at the University of Paris where she met this man who became her husband.
Who is Pierre Curie?
This sister helped Marie get her deploma.
Who was Bronia Sklodowska?
Ellen Gledtsch worked for Marie curie in this role.
Who was Marie Curie's lab assistant?
This USA president gave Marie Curie a gram of radium in 1921 as a gift.
Who is President Warren G. Harding?
Marie Curie figured out that radiation could destroy these types of cells faster then healthy cells.
What are cancer cells?
When Marie Curie graduated secondary school at 15 she won a gold medal for this achevment.
What doese being the top studen mean?
Marie helped support her sister Bronia's education by working this job.
What is a governess?
The "Radiume Girls" became sick after painting radium on these objects.
What are clock and watch dials?
When Marie Curie died her body emitted so much radioactivity it had to be buried in this object.
What is a lead lined coffin?
This was the first radioactive element that Marie found and she named it after her home country Poland.
What is polonium?
Marie Curie taught herself to do this action with books at age four.
What is reading?
When Marie Curie was ten this important family member died.
Who was Marie's mother?
Marie Curie founded these world renowned facilities in Paris and Warsaw to study radioactivity.
What are the Curie Institutes?
Marie"s mobile x-ray units used during WW1 had this nickname.
What were the "Little Curies"?