Physics lessons of Maria Sklodowska-Curie

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Physics lessonsof Maria Sklodowska-Curie

• Dr Józefina Turlo,
• mgr Elzbieta Dabkowska, mgr Andrzej Karbowski,
• mgr Krzysztof Sluzewski, dr Grzegorz Osinski,
  mgr Rafal Jankowski and dr Katarzyna Przegietka,
  
• Pupils of VIII LO in Torun

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Maria Sklodowska-Curie 1867
1934 (Warszawa) (Sallanches) You
have to be persistent And believe, that you are
able To do something well
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Childhood and education

• 5th child in family (1867),
• 1876 death of mather,
• 1877 private school ,of Madame Sikorska
• 1878 1883 gymnasium,
• 1891 1894 Sorbona studies, two BSc physics
  and mathematics.

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Marriage with Pierre Curie(1895 1906)

• 1897 daughter Irene was born,
• 1904 daughter Eva was born,
• 1904 tragic death of Pierre.

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Scientific research

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• Investigation of radioactivity (together with
  H.Becquerel and P.Curie),
• 1898 - discovery of two radioactive elements
  polonium (Poland) and radium.

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Hard work

• Work in cold and moist cote,
• work on exhalation of pure radium from uranium
  ore (8 tons, thousands of experiments),
• 1903 getting 1 decigram of radium chloride.

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Awards

• 1903 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of
  polonium and radium,
• 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry for exhalation of
  radium as a pure chemical element

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I Word War and action for Poland

• Closing radium in a strong-box of bank
• Creating 200 Roentgen casualty ward for war
  soldiers
• 1932 founding of Radium Institute in Warsaw,
  where Society of Maria Sklodowska Curie in
  Tribute is placed.

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Maria Sklodowska-Curieas physics teacher in a
class of pupils at 12 years old

• 1907 creation Society of Scientists for
  Experimental Teaching.
• Teachers
• Maria Sklodowska-Curie - physics,
• Jean Perrin - chemistry,
• Pierre Langevin - mathematics,
• Henri Mouton - science,
• Henrietta Perrin - French, history,
• Alice Chavannes - English, German, geography,
• Jean Magrou - drawing.
• 2003 - publication of 10 physics lessons notes of
  Maria Sklodowska-Curie by Isabelle Chavannes in
  Paris.

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Features of teaching method

• Not verbal teaching,
• learning from nature and demonstration of
  existing science hands-on experiments, explained
  by great scientists,
• activity of pupils by doing individual
  investigations,
• lively discussion with the use of simple and
  understandable language,
• acquiring valuable social skills through personal
  examples of teacher genius hard working,
  persistence, honesty, sensitivity for needs of
  others, etc.

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Success of pupils

• Irena Curie-Joliot Nobel Prize in 1935 for
  discovery of artificial radioactivity,
• Francis Perrin outstanding nuclear physicist,
  member of French Academy of Science,
• Andre i Jean Langevin nuclear physicists,
• Isabelle Chavannes chemistry engineer.

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Welcome for the performance of Maria
Sklodowska-Curie physics lessons!