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Marie Curie - Scientist Bio
Marie Curie was a truly passionate and persistent scientist who changed the face of chemistry and cancer treatments forever. Marie was born in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Both of her parents where teachers in which they presumed high expectations for their daughter, Marie. The college fund in which the family could produce was extremely limited. The limitation was so problematic that Marie’s sister first went to college, raised funds after finding a job, and paid her own sisters tuition. By 1821, Madame Curie enrolled to Sorbonne University in Paris where she obtained degrees in both Physics and Mathematical Science. During her years at Paris, Madame Curie met a physics professor, Pierre Curie, who she married within a year of laboratory partnership. They together began working on researches Madame Curie was inspired by Henri Becquerel. The laboratory conditions were horrid. During summer seasons, the heat would overtake the openly exposed laboratory shed, and during winter the poorly insulated walls would allow the frost in. Throughout Madam Curie’s brilliant experiments, she came upon the evidence of a new element, which she named Radon. The problem she and her husband encountered was the means to separate this new element from others. Hundreds of experiments took place with only one method of extraction that worked- evaporation. After four years, the couple suffered from severe climate conditions and hard work to acquire a final extraction which was all but a ‘stain’. Discouragement was the immediate reaction, but after second guessing themselves, they discovered that the stain truly was the final extracted element of Radon. Marie and Pierre Curie received many awards for their outstanding achievements. One most notably, was the Nobel Prize for Physics which they received in 1903 for their study on spontaneous radiation. In 1911, they received a second Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition of her studies in radiation. Madam Curie died in Savoy, France from leukemia on July 4, 1934. It is suggested that the radiation she exposed herself to is what originated the illness.
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