Near the 1920s, Curie and many of her colleagues began to suffer from symptoms of cancer. She also supported world peace by serving on the council of the League of Nations.ĭeath of a genius She then started speaking at meetings to raise more money and became a celebrity. She collected enough money and equipment for a new laboratory. She sailed for the United States in 1921. She was invited to tour the United States to recommend and speed up her project. The hospital raised money for radiation research. Pierre died on April 19, 1906, after he was hit by a horse-drawn wagon.Īfter the war, Marie started to raise money for a hospital. Their second daughter, Eve, was born in 1904. Marie and Pierre had their first daughter, Irene, in 1897. They also started to work together on scientific discoveries. They were married in July 1895 after only one year. Later, she met her husband, Pierre, at the Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry. One year later she earned a master's degree in mathematics. She graduated first in her class in 1893. Personal life Įven though Curie became a French citizen, Curie never lost her Polish identity. Many workers who made radium-containing products developed bone cancer. For example, doctors used to use it to kill cancer cells. Radium is now used for many different things.
They decided that it was coming from more than uranium. They discovered it when using a uranium ore. She shared this discovery with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.
It is one of the most radioactive and dangerous metals. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.ĭiscovery of radium Ĭurie discovered radium. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. These treatments used the radioactive isotopes. She used her own studies in radioactivity to develop a new treatment for cancer. The term polonium was named after Poland, her home country. They found different ways to separate radioactive isotopes and discovered two new elements: radium and polonium. She and her husband created a theory of radioactivity (a term made by her and her husband Pierre Curie). She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. In Paris, she earned higher degrees and did her important scientific work. Eventually, she left Poland and went to France under the name “Marie" after one of her big sisters gave her the chance. She also went to an unaccredited college in Poland. Marie became a teacher so she could earn money to go to school in Paris, France. As a young girl, she was interested in physics. At the age of ten, her sister Zofia died. Marie Curie was the fifth child in her family. Curie was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.
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