Maria Curie(1867 – 1934)

Made by Shelest AnnaForm 9 Secondary School of LugankaTeacher: Liuta O. G.

2015

Maria Curie was born in Warsaw on the 7th of November, 1867. Her father was a teacher of science and mathematics in a school in the town. She studied at Warsaw`s clandestine Floating University and began his practical scientific training in Warsaw.

Vladyslav Sklodovsky

House in which was born

Her childhood years were marred by early loss of one of the sisters and soon – mother.

Marie Curie’s mother The Sklodowskii family’s children, 1868

Maria studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, 1891. In Paris she began a course of hard study and simple living. She lived in a small room in the poorest part of Paris. Night after night, after hard day`s work at the University, she would climb to her poorly furnished room and work at her books for hours.

She was also the firstfemale professor at theUniversity of Paris(La Sorbonne)

Among, the many scientists Maria met and worked with in Paris was one – Pierre Curie. Pierre Curie, born in 1859 in Paris, was the son of a doctor, and from his childhood he was interested in science. Very soon they became the closest friends. In 1895 Maria Sklodovska became Madame Curie.

Pierre CurieThe Curie

Maria Curie works on her doctor`s thesis devoted to the study of radioactivity.

Maria Curie and her daughters

Without laboratory and working indoors university panty, and later in a shed on the street Lomont in Paris from 1898 to 1902 years Curies processed 8 tons of ore uranium.

Discovery of Radium

July 1898 Curie and her husband published a Joint paper announcing the existence of an element which they named “Polonium”, in honour of her native Poland. On the 26 of December 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named “Radium”, from the Latin word for “Ray”.

Radium

Polonium

The Curies were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 1893

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911

Reward and RankExcept two Nobel Prizes, Sklodovska – Curie was awarded:

Berthelot Medal of the French Academy of Sciences (1902);

Davy Medal (1903);

Matteucci Medal the National Academy of Sciences of Italy (1904);

Medals Elliott Cresson (1909).

Rose “Maria Curie”House-museum in Warsaw

Madame Marie Curie died in Sansellmoze July 4, 1934. Disease - acute pernicious anemia. Bone marrow has not given reaction, possibly due to the degeneration of the long-term accumulation of radioactive radiation.

She was the leading woman scientist, the greatest woman of her time and was the first person who received the Nobel Prize twice.