What Was Marie Curie Famous For ?
Madame Marie Curie was a prolific woman scientist and most famous for her discovery of elements polonium and radium. She was a Polish physicist and chemist who lived between 1867-1943 and the first scientist to propagate the term radioactivity. |
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She was awarded with Nobel Prize twice for her excellence in physics and chemistry. Marie was helped by her husband Pierre Curie and the French physicist, Henri Becquerel. Her discovery of the two elements helped tremendously in the growth of medical science. Radium was successfully used for x-ray purpose. Marie Curie research was based on development methods for separation of radium from radioactive residues to understand its therapeutic properties in a better way.
Madame Curie strongly promoted the use of radium to help those who suffered during the World War I. She was assisted by her daughter Irene, who actively helped her mother in this remedial work. Irene too had a great likeness and interest in science particularly in chemistry.
Madame Curie received number of awards and honors for her great contribution to the mankind. She also received many honorary science, medicine and law degree and memberships of intellectual societies from around the globe. She was highly admired by scientist throughout the world.
She was a lifetime member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 and since 1922 she had been a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Her great works are recorded in several papers of scientific journals and she was the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (1904), L'Isotopie et les Éléments Isotopes and the classic Traité' de Radioactivité (1910).
Apart from the two Nobel Prize, she also received the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903 along with her husband. In the year 1921, President Harding of United States presented her with one gram of radium, on behalf of the women of America for her great contribution in science.
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