WANTED: Marie Curie
By: Keagan Terry
Marie curie November 7,1867-July 4,1934
Childhood
Despite her childhood not being the greatest, Marie graduated from high with the highest honors at age fifteen. After graduating Marie suffered from depression, as a result her father sent her to her cousins house in the countryside for a year alone.
The Skłodowska children in 1872 (from left) Sophia, Bronislawa, Maria, Joseph and Helena
Marie's later education
Marie found a job at a beet-sugar factory and taught the owners children to read, risking getting in huge trouble with the police. Marie was also taught math, chemistry, and physics by a fellow worker.
1889-1894
Marie only had money for a small room, the cheapest food, and not much else. Marie started school and life with a new name, she registered as Marie instead of Maria. Marie wasn't as prepared as the others but in just three years she had master degrees in physics and math. Now on her own she studied so hard that she sometimes forgot to eat.
Marie on her own
Discoveries
Marie started studying pitchblende to figure out what chemicals it contains. To speed up the studying Pierre helped her out. In 1898 Marie and Pierre discover and name two new elements polonium and radium. Marie got a Nobel prize for this discovery and became the first woman to get a Nobel prize.
Uranium ore
1903-1934
In 1914 the world war had started Marie made 20 mobile x-ray machines to help the doctors with finding bullets, shrapnel, and broken bones. Marie also gave them radium to kill diseased skin. Since 1920 Marie had been suffering from a disease caused by being exposed to radioactivity and died on July 4th 1934. Her daughter Irene carried on her legacy.
Quotes
--Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie
“Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.”
― Marie Curie
“I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
― Marie Curie
Albert Einstein:
Marie Curie is of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.