FOOTPRINTS OF

MARIE CURIE
Ümmüye Nur Tüzün – Double PhD
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MARIE CURIE

• Marie Curie was born

in a family with five
children in 1867.
• When she was born,
there was poorness in
in Poland [1].
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MARIE CURIE

• In these days not only

educating in Poland
was so difficult, but
also living in Poland
was so difficult too.
• Her mother and father
were teachers [1].
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• Hard times started for
Marie after her sister died
form typhus.
• After that her father lost his
job.
• Her mother put off her duty
in school managing for
bringing up her four
children but after a time she
died form tuberculosis [1].
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• Maire educated form

high school with
honour degree so took
a gold medallion.
• Her aim was to go to
Paris and take
education in Sorgon
just like her sister [1].
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• Marie and her sister
found a solution.
• First Marie would
work and make her
sister get educated then
her sister would do the
same thing in turn [1].
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• Marie had worked as a
teacher for a family for
six years and sent her
salary to her sister who
had been educating on
medicine [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• When Marie turned to
Warsaw, she started to
work at agriculture and
industry museum’s
laboratory.
• When her sister
graduated, her turn
came and she went to
Paris [1].
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• She registered at Science
Faculty in Sorgon.
• Her conditions for living
was so hard. She was
living at a small attic and
for living she was working
at labarotory for watching
the ovens or washing the
laboratory equipments [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• But she did not come to an
end because of poorness.
• Instead when she graduated,
she was the first in the
acceptance exam of physics
for MS degree.
• In the following year she
started at mathematics
department for her MS
degree [1].
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• She was spending her time
at laboratory.
• She met her husband,
Pierre Curie in there too.
• Pierre was working on
piazza electric with her
brother and also he was the
chairman of the physics-
chemistry school
laboratories [1].
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• Marie and Pierre
bonded not only their
studies but also their
lives too.
• Marie was the first
woman to take double
Nobel prizes in both
physics and chemistry
[1].
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MARIE CURIE
• One of her two
daughters, Irene, took
Nobel prize, so they
were the family with
the most Nobel prizes
in science history [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• In 1898 Marie and her
husband first found Polonium
and then radium which made a
place for then in science
history.
• Their shared subject was
radioactivity.
• Furthermore they searched the
materials in detail which were
defined as giving emission in
dark by Becquerel [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• They measured the effect
caused by crystals containing
uranium.
• After the uranium salt
corroded the glass it was put
on in Becquerel’s lab in 1898,
then Maire and Pierre
purificated kilograms of
uranaitit in a storage room at
the basement of physics
laboratory [1].
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• So Curies found radium whose
affect was two million times
stronger than uranium.
• In 1902 the made it used in
medicine.
• In 1903 they shared the Nobel
prize in physics with
Becquerel.
• So they could pay off their
research debts with this prize
too [1].
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• Some of the lab equipments
of Marie Curie are now
exhibited in Marie Curie
museum in Warsaw.
• But the notebook she had
used for years was put in a
special box in France because
of the radiation it is emitting.
• Anyway Marie died from
blood cancer too [1].
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• The Curies did not like being
interviewed.
• Once an American journalist
came to their door and thought
Marie as servant because of her
lack of care.
• So Marie Curie said this saying
which found place in history
• «Show less interest in people
and much more interest in
ideas.» [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• Pierre took a new position as
Professor at Sorgon and then
Marie was the first educating
in PhD program.
• In 1906 Pierre died. So the
France government offered to
give salary for Marie and her
daughters but she refused.
• She continued to tell her
studies to her husband as
letters to Pierre [1].
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• In 1906 her husbands place at
uni was offered to her.
• In the first day of her lessons lots
of politicians, scientist and
journalists came to lecture room
for hearing her first saying but
she just continued to tell the
lesson where her husband gave
up.
• Einstein sad for her that she was
the one who did not degenerate
because of fame [1].
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• Marie succeeded to
isolate Radium at
university, and did not
take its patent for
allowing other scientist
to work in the same
field freely [1].
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• In 1901 she made
publication about her
radioactivity researches.
• She found that an
element could turn into
another by radioactivity.
• By her findings she took
Nobel prize in chemistry
in 1911 [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• She developed portable x-ray
devices in Poland because of its
usage in war.
• She thought the use of x-ray
technology to others but she was
exposed x-rays during all these
periods.
• In 1914 She became manager of the
first Radium institute in Paris.
• When the war started she gave their
Nobel prize madellions to army [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• She gave lectures in lots of
countries.
• She was in the international
thinking commission.
• She opened a Radium
institute in Warsaw, in
today it stills works as a
research centre for cancer
[1].
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MARIE CURIE
• In America she worked on the
chemical structures of
radioactive chemicals and their
usage in medicine.
• She found artificial
radioactivity with her daughter
and groom.
• The made lots of studies about
Radium and Polonium in 1920s
which made it proper for
Chadwick to find neutron [1].
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MARIE CURIE
• Irene took Nobel prize
in chemistry in 1935.
• So they are the family
with the most Nobel
prizes in science history.
• Today her grandchildren
are scientists too [1].
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• In 1934 Marie had blood
cancer because of
Radium
• When she died in the
same year, she had
radioactive burns in her
fingers.
• Her grave is in France
[1].
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öğrencilerin öğretim ortamlarının zenginleştirilmesi: Canlı
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