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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Born: November 7, 1867Died:July 4, 1934 Marie Curie Discoveries: Uses/Dangers: Her Successor: Other significant information: Curie's Daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie (and husband,Frédéric Joliot-Curie),used her researchto continue it; they did so by their synthesis of new radioactive elements. This discovery earned them a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. - Marie Curie was the first womanof her time to take the Professorof General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences position. - In 1929, President Hoover gifted$50,000, through the donationof the American friends of science,so she could purchase radium for the laboratory in Warsaw (her hometown). Her inspiration: 3 significant historical events occurring around this time: Henri Becquerel, from hisdiscovery of radioactivity in 1896, inspired Curie into her researches of the isolation of polonium (named after her home country) and radium. She developed methods to separate radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities so it could be properly characterized and carefully studied for its properties, mostly therapeutic properties. - She was a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. - She was the authorof three known books: Recherchessur les Substances Radioactives (1904), L'Isotopie et les Éléments Isotopes and the classic Traité' de Radioactivité (1910). Marie Curie was a well-known Polish and naturalized-French physicist (originally) and later called a chemist(when the term was recognized). She is widely recognized for her workin radioactivity and how she discovered Radium and Polonium. These elements she discovered were later used in many ways; for instance, radium is used in x-rays and glow sticks (both medical and entertainment). Polonium on the other hand is used in cigarettes and some brushes to remove dust from photographic films. While these uses were handy, they also came with their downfalls. With radium, it is known to forms of cancer whereas polonium is known to make people horribly sick through poisoning them. Anyways, she has received multiple Nobel Prizes or gifts for her discoveries and work she has made/done. - World War I: she assisted her daughter, Irene, by doing remedial work- During her birth, Poland was not an independent country; most of it was divided up into Austria, Prussia, Russia- Her family were high educated individuals, but as Russia took control of Poland her familys economic status dropped.
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