Marie Curie
How They Croaked- You Glow Girl
Brief Bio
Born: November 7,1867
Warsaw, Poland
Died: July 4, 1934
Savoy, France
She was only 66 years old when she died.
A Brief History
Disease; How Marie Curie Croaked
Technology use during the time
Technology:
- X-Ray
- Trucks
Why She was Historically Significant
Nobel Prize For Physics and Chemistry
Radioactivity 101
Marie Curie
Events that happened throughout Marie's life:
1906- In 1906 Marie became the first woman professor at Sorbonne, she taught Radioactivity 101.
1906- In 1906 Marie's husband, Pierre, was hit by a horse-drawn cab and died.
1911- Marie won her second Nobel Prize, but this time for Chemistry.
1934- On July 4, 1934 Marie died by continuous exposure to radiation.
Vocabulary
2. Pitchblende: a form of the mineral uraninite occurring in brown or black pitchlike masses.
3. Crystallography: the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals.
4. Piezoelectric Quartz: they generate an electrical charge when mechanical pressure is applied to them.
5. Kryptonite: a person's weakness.