MARIE CURIE

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be

understood.

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HER EARLY YEARS

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7,
1867, she was the daughter of a school teacher. She
got a general education in local schools and
scientific training from her father. She became
involved in a student revolutionary organization and
found it important for there future to leave Warsaw,
than in a part of Poland dominated by Russia, for
Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule.

HER CAREER
Her early researches, together with her husband, were
often performed under difficult conditions, laboratory
arrangements were poor and both had to undertake much
teaching to earn a livelihood. The discovery of radioactivity
by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their
brilliant researches and analyses which led to the isolation
of polonium, named after the country of Maries birth, and
radium. Curie developed methods for the separation if
radium from radioactivity residues in sufficient qualities to
allow for its characterization and the careful study of its
properties, therapeutic properties in particular.

AWARDS
Marie Curie has an award named after her, the
award is The Marie Curie Excellence Award. The
Marie Curie Excellence Award was given to the first
five European researchers Paola Arimond from the
UK, Daniel Bonn from the Netherlands', Letitia
Cugliandolo from Argentina, Marco Dorigo from
Italy, and Luis Pubull from Spain

HER PASSING
Marie Curie died July 4 1934, in Passy, Haute-Savoie,
France from radiation poisoning. Her last words
were; The honor that now came to me was deeply
painful under the cruel circumstances of its
coming.