'Science is for Mankind'
Marie Curie is a pioneer in the field of radiology and she got Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and in Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. She was born on 7
November 1897 under the name Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw Poland. She was a girl
who always thirsts for knowledge that is why she became a village girl who
graduated at the top. Her father was a professor. Marie was educated at the
Sorbonne University of France.
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Marie Curie’s First Discovery
Marie met her husband
in Paris, then lived together to discuss science. Marie and her husband both
come from families who value education and science. Together with her husband,
Pierre Curie, she discovered radium element.
They discovered the
radioactive elements polonium and radium first. Polonium is taken from the name
of Poland, the Birthplace of Marie. Radium is taken from the color of the blue
radiation is successfully biosynthesized chloride salt. The method used to
separate salt from radium and polonium uranium rock freely published on the
world of knowledge. They did not patent the method used for sticking to their
principles, namely 'science is for mankind'.
Marie Curie Contributions
After Pierre Curie
Died in an accident in 1906, Marie continued her studies with her children.
Marie became a lecturer in physics in particular about the radiation. She became
the first female professor at the Sorbonne University of France. Her first
lecture of participants is limited to 120 acres among college students, public
and Journalists. She explained the theory of gases and ions in the form of a
Treatise on radioactivity. The next discovery she was awarded a second Nobel Prize in the discovery of radium isolation by
molten salt electrolysis of radium chloride.
In 1915 Marie Curie used her knowledge to help the Red Cross
team in the war in France. Marie gave her sincerity and hard work to get sympathy from the
science world. She got a gift of one gram of uranium
from U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and U.S. $ 50,000 assistance from
the U.S. President Hoover for the purchase of materials used radium in Warsaw.
Marie also received honorary doctor of science degree (Doctor of Science) supplied from leading universities due
to her thought and hard work is the greatest
contribution to science. During the years 1903-1912 she and her students
and colleagues continue research their discovered radium and radioactive
isotopes other than 29 types of radium.
Marie Curie the Last of Life
Marie did not know the
dangers of trying to isolate radioactive substances when she was too often in
direct contact with these elements. She suffered from leukemia cancer due to
excessive radiation of radium into the body. So on July 4, 1934 she died in
Haute Savoie Marie. The world loss her, but Marie left a formidable successor. Her two daughters won the Nobel.
Irene her first child won the Nobel Chemistry in
1935 with her husband Frederick Joliot, and Marie second child Eva became the
director of UNICEF's and won the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1965 with her husband, H. R. Labouisse.
