A scientist that accomplished great achievements
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Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland and died July 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz. She was the scientist that discovered Radium and Polonium she also successfully won a nobel prize in physics and chemistry. Her full name is Marie Sklodowska Curie and had two children, Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie that sadly passed away. Irène Joliot-Curie died 1956 and Ève Curie died 2007. Marie Curie has been awarded with two nobel prizes and many other award. She accomplished a lot as a scientist. She also did research about radioactivity and worked with x-rays.
She also discovered polonium, a chemical element with the symbol Po on the Periodic Table of Elements. It’s a rare and very radioactive metal. Its atomic number is 84.
Marie Curie also worked with radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on radioactivity 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie. On April 20th, 1902 Marie Curie isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende while working in their laboratory in Paris.
Marie Curie timeline
November 7, 1867 – Marie was born in Poland.
1891 – She moved to Paris so she could study at Sorbonne.
1895 – Marie gets married with Pierre Curie and that’s why she changed her name to Marie Curie.
1897 – Marie Curie’s first born daughter Irène Joliot-Curie was born.
1902 – Marie Curie got hired to work on some experiments while she was working and discovered pure radium.
1903 – Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie won a Nobel Prize for their good work with radioactivity.
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Marie Curie | Biography & Facts | Britannicahttps://www.britannica.com › … › Physics › Physicists
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