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Marie Curie: "Nothing in Life is to be Feared. It is only to be Understood."

**Marie Curie: Birth and Death. Plus the Place of Birth:**

Born: November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.

Death: July 4, 1934, Curie died of the action of radiation.

Curie died at the age of 67.



**Marie Curie was famous for:**
 * In 1898, the Curies announced their discovery of the chemical elements, polonium and radium. Polonium is a silvery-gray element which is used on brushes for dust removal of photograhic film. Radium is a radioactive element that is used for cancer treatment.
 * In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for separating pure radium.

**Her Amazing Scientific Work:**

Marie won two Nobel Prizes, one was for isolating pure radium. Curie was the director of the University of the Radium Insitute. Also, she worked at the University of Paris. She also worked on the battlefields in World War 1 with her daughter. Marie studied the rays (beams of energy) given off by elements of uranium. Later, she studied the magnetic properties of various types of steel.

1. In the spring of 1894, the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry awarded Marie a grant to study the magnetic properties of various types of steel.
 * Marie Curie's Career: **

2. Marie Curie worked at the University of Paris, where her husband worked before he was killed.

3. Curie was named director of the University and the Radium Institute.

4. Curie worked during World War 1 on the battlefields with her teenage daughter, Irene.

5. Her laboratory was a vacant storeroom in the School of Industrial Physics.

6. At age 17, Curie applied for a governess position.

**Interesting Facts about Marie Curie:** 1. Manya could read by the time she was four, and she was a brilliant student. She spoke perfect Russian, and teachers often called on her when Russian inspectors came to see how things were going in the classroom. Young Manya had an amazing memory and an ability to concentrate despite distractions and noise. At home, her brother and sisters often teased her while she was studying by swooping around her, yelling, trying to break her concentration.

2. One of Curie's teachers, Paul Schützenberger, who cofounded the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris, allowed her to use a vacant storeroom for her laboratory. The room was large, but it was also damp and unheated, and the roof leaked. Sometimes, the temperature would drop to near freezing.

3. Marie Curie died of Leukemia on U.S.'s Independence Day because of the radiation of radium.

4. One of Curie's teachers, Paul Schützenberger, who cofounded the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris, allowed her to use a vacant storeroom for her laboratory. The room was large, but it was also damp and unheated, and the roof leaked. Sometimes, the temperature would drop to near freezing.

5. In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman in France to receive a Ph.D. in science.

6. Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes, her first in 1903, and her second in 1911.

7. The war had left the laboratory short of funds and equipment. When this became known to the public, Curie was invited to travel to the United States. During Curie's 1921 visit, President Warren G. Harding presented her with a gram of radium for the Institute -- worth $100,000 at the time.

8. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize.

9. Curie first applied for a governess position, not to be a scientist.

10. To get a real job, both her sister Bronya and her started tutoring younger children.

11. Curie has an amazing ability to concentrate, her siblings would scream around her to try to distract her, but she wouldn't budge.

12. Her father was a physics and mathematics teacher, and also was bilingual.

13. Marie was the youngest born of five children.

14. Curie secretly attended Floating University. If she was caught, she would be punished by the Russians.

15. During Marie Curie's childhood, Poland was controlled by Russians.

16. In her time, girls formal education ended at age 15 or 16.
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