1.  One of the most greatest celebritys of modern science are Marie Curie the discoverer of radium and polonium.  She worked with Pierre Curie, her husband together them won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work with radioactivity. 8th Grade - Week 11

2.  Lucia asked, “didn’t the Curies work result in the use of radiation therapys to treat cancer”?  Yes Lucia peoples later learn that radium could kill diseased cells. 8th Grade - Week 11

3.  M Curie founded the Radium institute in paris France too study possible uses of radium.  During the world war I, she equip and accompanyed a mobile X-ray unit. 8th Grade - Week 11

4.  Curie helped make known the benefits of radiation, but she died on july 4 1934, from radiation sickness.  She did not no way fully understand radium’s dangers or she wouldve certain modifyed some of her laboratory procedures. 8th Grade - Week 11

5.  Like scientists everywhere, Curie recorded her theorys processes and findings in notebooks.  More than seventy five years later, them notebooks are still too dangerous to be handled. 8th Grade - Week 11