DIGITAL ALBUM

DIGITAL ALBUM. Submitted By GANGA P Physical science.

Marie curie. The women who changed science.

The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize..

fifi E. Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Her birth name was Maria Sklodowska , but her family called her Manya . Curie was the youngest of five children..

Both of Curie's parents were teachers. Her father, Wladyslaw , was a math and physics instructor and her mother was headmistress at a girl’s school..

Marie was a very bright child and did well in school. She had a sharp memory and worked hard on her studies . She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw..

In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work ..

In 1895 she married the French physicist Pierre Curie.

Pierre and Marrie in laboratory.

In 1898 the Curies discovered two new radioactive elements: radium (named after the Latin word for ray) and polonium (named after Marie's home country, Poland).

Marie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work ..

In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity.

Throughout World War I, Marie Curie, with the help of her daughter Irène , devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography ..

Marie Curie driving a renault automobile converted into a mobile radiological unit,1914.Curie used these vehicles,to bring X-ray equipment to wounded soldiers during World war 1..

Marie Curie died as a result of aplastic anemia caused by the action of radiation on July 14, 1934..

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood .”.