Marie Curie is a physicist and chemist

Marie Curie is a physicist and chemist, and she's the first woman to get the Nobel Prize, and she's the only one to get two Nobel Prizes in two different fields, in physics and chemistry.

About Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. Her full name is Maria Schlodoska.

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics to be the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and then she got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to become the only one to win two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.

Through her research and her quest with her husband, Pierre Cory, Mary discovered polonium and radium and later developed X-ray.

Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934.

Marie Curie's beginnings,

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7 November 1867. Mary was the youngest of her siblings. Her parents were teachers. 

Her father was a professor of mathematics and physics, and this influenced her. She was a genius and distinguished in school. But the family suffered when Mary's mother died of tuberculosis.

Marie excelled in high school, but she was unable to enter the University of Warsaw, which was exclusively reserved for male students. 

Therefore, she continued her education and joined an unofficial secret university in Warsaw called the Floating University.

Marie and her sister, Brunia, had long dreamed of traveling to an official university degree, but the lack of conditions prevented them from paying for the university's expenses.

But the insistence of the two girls to learn led them to make an agreement that Mary would do the job and earn money to spend on Brunia while studying medicine, and Brunia would work to support Mary while studying.

As a result of that agreement, Marie worked for five years as a teacher and a housewife until in 1891, she traveled to Paris and joined the ranks of the Sorbonne University. 

Marie studied at her college and suffered some health problems because of poor nutrition and poor conditions.

In 1893, Marie obtained a master's degree in physics and insisted on studying it until the following year she obtained a degree in math. At the time, Marie started working on research on the different types of steel and its magnetic properties, and two years later, I married French physicist Pierre Curie

Marie Curie's accomplishments,

The Pierre and Marie couples first worked on two separate projects, and Marie was impressed by the research of the French physicist Henri Becquerel, who had discovered that uranium was an element that emits weaker radiation than X-rays.

To complement what Pickerel found, Mary did some research on the radiation emitted by uranium, and she discovered that the rays were constant regardless of the shape of the atom, and she made a hypothesis that the rays were emitted by the atomic structure of the same element and not by an interaction between atoms.

This theory established the field known as “atomic physics,” and Marie created a new term called “radioactivity,” which describes the phenomenon of atomic radiation.

Pierre left his job and joined his wife to help her with her research on radiation activities, and with their tireless efforts, the Corrie couple discovered in 1898 a new radioactive element called polonium, which is Marie's original home in Poland.

The couple discovered another radioactive material by studying a metal filled with radioactive elements and called it radium.

In 1903, Marie and her husband, Pierre, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, which earned Mary fame worldwide.

Marie was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, and the Corrie couple used their Nobel Prize money to complete their research and studies.

Marie suffered a painful blow when her husband, Pierre, died in a terrible accident in 1906, and after Pierre's death, he was replaced at the Sorbonne University and became the first woman to work as a professor in the Sorbonne.

Marie became the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in two different fields when she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for finding radium and polonium.

Marie Corrie's most famous words,

Marie Corrie's personal life,

When Marie needed a laboratory to do her research on steel, she was guided by some of her colleagues to the French physicist Pierre Cory, and the relationship between Mary and Pierre developed in a distinctive scientific binary form, and they got married on July 26, 1897.

In 1897, Marie gave birth to her daughter, Irene. And the year the couple won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Marie gave birth to her daughter, Eve.

The Death of Marie Curie,

During her days of working with chemicals and isotopes, Marie Curie had in her pocket test tubes containing radioactive elements such as radium, since it was not known at the time how dangerous a contact with these elements was.

Marie then had to receive treatment at the Sancelemoz clinic in Bassi, France, where she was treated for the spongy anemia disease she suffered because of exposure to radioactive materials.

In 1995, the remains of Marie Corrie and her husband were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris, where there are the remains of many great French men. Marie was the first and only one to receive this honor.

Quick Facts about Marie Corrie had no idea of the dangers of radioactive chemicals, although she was working directly with them.

Marie paid a tax on her reputation around the world when the story of her relationship with Paul Langevin, who was one of her late husband's students, went viral, and the French press covered the story with vitriol.

When World War I broke out, Marie devoted her time and effort to helping the war victims, and used an X-ray mobile device to help those wounded in the war, which helped save many lives.

Marie's daughter, Irene Juliet Corrie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. She shared the prize with her husband, Friedrich.

There are many scientific and medical research centers today called Curie, like the Curie Institute and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.

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