Awesome Facts About Marie Curie And Family
Marie Curie - a polish born scientist and chemist who has brought a revolution in the field of medical science. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, and the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, also the first female professor at the University of Paris. |
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Marie Curie was called Marie Sklodowska before marriage –was born in Warsaw in 1867. Her parents were teachers thus deeply believed in the importance of good education. It was Marie’s father who gave her the first lesson of physics and chemistry. She had an intelligent mind and a keen desire to learn new things. At the age of 24, Marie came to Paris to study mathematics and physics. She was helped by her elder sister, Bronya who contributed to the cost of Marie’s study. She passed brilliantly in the examination. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie, a professor at the School of Physics and they got married in 1895.
Together with her husband, she started working on the recent discoveries of radiation with uranium. The Curies discovered polonium and radium in 1898. It was Marie who first gave the term radioactivity. In 1903 the Curie couple shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel. In a sudden road mishap, Pierre died in 1906 and Marie was appointed at her husband’s post of a professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. She was the first woman who got the privilege of being a professor there.
In 1911, she was awarded with second Nobel Prize for her outstanding contribution in the field of chemistry and her work on radium and its compounds. Marie Curie was the first person who won the Nobel Prize twice. She was appointed as a director of the laboratory of radioactivity at the Curie Institute of Radium, (jointly established by the Univ. of Paris and the Pasteur Institute), for research on radioactivity and radium therapy. Marie Curie received many honors for her significant discoveries; however she wasn’t able to spend a luxurious life.
Marie Curie had two daughters, Irene and Eve. Her elder daughter and son-in-law, Irene and Frederic Joliot Curie was also a Nobel Prize winner for their excellence in nuclear physics. The element curium (Ci) was named after the Curie family. Madame Curie died on 4th July 1934 after prolong illness and overexposure of radiation.
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Marie Curie - The world’s most famous woman scientist and the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium. She was the first women to win two Nobel Prize along with her husband, Pierre Curie in 1903 and 1911 and remains an inspiration for others even today. 