MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE

BY

KATARZYNA WIELGOS

CLASS 6D

SZKOŁA PODSTAWOWA NR 9 IM. MIKOŁAJA KOPERNIKA

DZIERŻONIÓW, POLANDChristmas TruceeTwinning project, 2014

Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw

on 7th November 1867

She was a Polish physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice,

the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy

of five Nobel Prizes.

She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her

own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

STUDIES She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work.

University of the Sorbonne in times of Marie Curie Skłodowska

DISCOVERY OF MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE

In July 1898 Maria Curie and her husband Pierre published a joint paper announcing the existence of an element which they named "polonium", in honour of her homeland Poland, which would for another twenty years remain partitioned among three empires.

On 26 December 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named "radium", from the Latin word for „ray”.

In the course of their research, they also coined the word "radioactivity".

She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel.

SECOND NOBLE PRIZE

She won the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911

During World War I, Maria Curie saw a need for field radiological centres near the front lines to assist battlefield surgeons, which came to be popularly known as petites Curies ("Little Curies").

She became the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service and set up France's first military radiology centre.

Curie directed the installation of 20 mobile radiological vehicles and another 200 radiological units at field hospitals in the first year of the war.

Later, she began training other women as aides.

Maria Skłodowska-Curie visited Poland for

the last time in early 1934.

A few months later, on 4 July 1934, she

died at the Sancellemoz Sanatorium in

Passy, in Haute-Savoie,

from aplastic anemia. Believed to have

been contracted from her long-term

exposure to radiation.

The damaging effects of ionising radiation

were not known at the time of her work,

which had been carried out without the

safety measures later developed.

She was burried at the cemetery in Sceaux, alongside her husband Pierre. Sixty years later, in 1995, in honour of their achievements, the remains of both were transferred to the Panthéon, Paris.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://pl.wikipedia.org/

• http://www.innowacyjnystart.pl

• www.gogle.pl – grafiki i zdjęcia

• www.wyborcza.pl

• www.dreamer.pl