Marie Curie By: Anushiya Balakrishnan and Danielle Caruso “Nothing in life is to be feared—it is only to be understood.”

Scientist’s Life Born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland Named Maria Sklodowski – changed to Marie Married scientist Pierre Curie who was already established as a scientist. He discovered piezoelectricity which is when, “physical pressure applied to a crystal results in the creation of an electric potential.”

Education Parents were teachers so she learned the importance of education early. After participating in students' revolutionary organization, she moved to Paris to continue science education in 1891 She studied in Sorbonne, a famous Parisian University. Here she earned Licentiateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences Received much recognition for isolating elements and contributing to science Died July 4, 1934 due to pernicious anemia

Experiments uranium and uranium oreWith A. Henri Becquerel and Pierre, she experimented with properties of the element uranium and uranium ore. She named the effect “radio-activity.” thorium, polonium,She started checking other elements to determine if they were radioactive and found thorium, polonium, and a mixture called “pitch-blend” which was more powerful than the other two elements. radiumMarie and Pierre worked for four years to isolate the radioactive source which she named radium. They received a Nobel Prize in Physics. Later discovered it wasn’t pure radium and she isolated that and received Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Additional Info Marie Curie’s model of the atom was unsure, since no scientists before her was successful in creating a true model. However in 1911, scientist Ernest Rutherford conducted experiments in which he observed that an atom consisted of a nucleus and other loose particles. Marie Curie’s experiments, therefore, advanced our knowledge of elements uranium, thorium, polonium and radium. By discovering these elements not only did she explain radioactivity but gave scientists a chance to figure out their mass, atomic number, atomic weight, number of protons/electrons/neutrons…. Uranium

Scientific Achievements First women to receive Nobel Prize First person to receive two Nobel Prizes – Nobel Prize For Physics in January 1903 with her husband and Becquerel – Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 for working with radioactivity Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903 with husband Given a gram of radium in 1921 by US President Harding for achievements First female Director of the Physics Laboratories at the Sorbonne after Pierre dies

Scientific Contributions Discovered that radium/radioisotopes kills human cells. She reasoned that it could also kill cancer and tumor cells Created mobile X-ray machine for use on battlefields Helped discover nuclear power Concluded that “the ability to radiate did not depend on the arrangement of the atoms in a molecule, it must be linked to the interior of the atom itself.” Could also could be called mother of the atomic bomb through her work in radioactivity.

Websites Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium.” NobelPrize.org. 1 Dec Web. 29 Oct Ham, Denise. “Marie Sklodowska Curie:The Woman Who Opened The Nuclear Age.” 21 st Century Science Tech. n.d. Web. 25 Oct Hole, Robert B. “Science Hero: Madame Curie.” My Hero. 20 Sep Web. 22 Oct