Marie Curie Part 3 Final

Your Still here? Thanks! In 1898 they reported 2 new elements Polonium, named after Marie’s native Poland, and Radium the Latin word for ray, they also quoined the term radioactivity along the way. By 1902 the Curies had extracted a 10^th of a gram of pure radium chloride salt, from several tons of pitchblende, an incredible feet at the time. Later that year Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel were nominated for the Nobel prize in physics, but Marie was overlooked. Pierre took a stand in support of his wife’s well earned recognition, and so both of the Curies and Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel prize making Marie Curie the first female Noble laureate. Well funded and well respected the Curies were on a roll. But tragedy struck at 1906 when Pierre was crushed by a horse strung cart, as he crossed at the intersection. Marie devastated, amerced herself in her research and took over Pierre’s teaching position at the Sorbonne, becoming the school’s first female professor. Her solo work was fruitful in 1911 she won yet another Noble this time in chemistry, in her earlier discovery of radium, and polonium and her extraction of pure radium. This made her the first, and to this day only person to win Noble prizes in 2 different sciences. Professor Curie put her discoveries to work changing the landscape of medical research in treatments, she opened mobiles units during world war 1, and investigated radiation effects on tumors. How ever these benefits to humanity may have come at a high personal cost. Curie died in 1934 of a bone narrow disease, which many today think it was caused by her radiation exposition.