By: Irene Papacosta

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Marie Curie

• By Irene Papacosta
• Elena Sammouti
• Despo Patsia
• Sevilay Gorener
• Eser Saracoglu
• (Also known as the Curies)

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Contents

• Marie Curies Early Life
• Marie Curies Life after she moved to Paris
• Her Tragic Death
• Her scientific work
• Prizes

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Marie Curies Early Life

• Marie Curie, (Maria Sklodowska), was born in
  Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a
  secondary-school teacher.
• She received a general education in local schools
  and some scientific training from her father. She
  became involved in a students' revolutionary
  organization and found it prudent to leave
  Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by
  Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under
  Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to
  continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she
  obtained Licenciateships in Physics and the
  Mathematical Sciences.

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Marie Curies Life after she moved to Paris

• She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of
  Physics in 1894 and in the following year they
  were married. She succeeded her husband as Head
  of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained
  her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and
  following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in
  1906, she took his place as Professor of General
  Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, the first
  time a woman had held this position. She was also
  appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the
  Radium Institute of the University of Paris,
  founded in 1914.

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Her scientific work

• Her most important observation was that certain
  mining uranium presented much more powerful
  radioactivity.
• On 18 July 1898 the Curies announce in the
  scientific community the discovery of a new
  element, that on 25 December of same year is
  announced by the pair of Curies as the discovery
  of radion. Maria Kjoyrj became acquaintance for
  the discovery of radion and the studies on the
  radioactivity.

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Her Tragic Death

• In 1934 she died from cancer in Savoy which is in
  France. Her sickness was due of the
  radiation.Then the people called her the woman
  who died for science. In 1934 she died from
  cancer in Savoy which is in France. Her sickness
  was due of the radiation.Then the people called
  her the woman who died for science.

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Prizes

• Nobel Prize for Physics (1903)
• Davy Medal (1903)
• Matteucci Medal (1904)
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911)

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Trivia

• Her brothers at order of age Sofia,
  Mpronjsoyava, Elena and Jwsif.
• It had left from the house of her brother because
  the distance from the university.
• Institution Nobel, Nobel Natural 1936.
• The French newspapers published personal letters
  to the Lanzevan, in which the Curie described the
  movements that it would be supposed it makes in
  order to it takes divorce from his woman.
• So much big it was the general outcry, that the
  Swedish Academy symvoyleyse Maria Kjoyrj' to go
  it receives the reward because the scandal. The
  Curie answered that "the reward to me him you
  gave for the discovery of elements ra'djo and
  polw'njo. I believe that does not exist relation
  ana'mesa in my scientific work and in elements of
  my private life... "

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Our opinion about Marie Curie

• We thing she is a very important scientist
  because she investigated many important
  investigations which helped the world to be
  better.
• We can know that because of the Nobel Price she
  won.