FREE ESSAY ON MARIE CURIE

MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie is the most famous woman of physics. She has been recognized for her work with
Nobel Prize awards in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). She got a late start with
her education obtaining her license in physics in 1893 and the corresponding degree in
mathematics in 1894. In 1903, she finally received her doctorate. Choosing raioactivity
as a thesis topic, Madame Curie examined a number of substances and found that thorium
and its compounds behaved the same way as uranium. While examining pitchblende, a uranium
ore, she discovered radium and polonium. In 1910 she succeeded in isolating pure radium
metal. Marie Curie was also instrumental in setting up the Curie laboratory in Paris. She
died in 1934 of leukemia, thought to have been brought on by her extensive exposure to
the high levels of radiation involved in her studies. 
Bibliography
Jaki, Stanley L., Curie
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD BIOGRAPHIES
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