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	Look@ Magazine: issue 1a Marie Curie   Mari Curie was born in Poland on 7th November 1867. Her father was a teacher and He taught mathematics and science. Though she is known as Marie, her full name was Maria Sklodowska. She was a very clever girl and did her higher studies in the Sorbonne University of France. She married Pierre Curie in 1895. Much of her research was carried out in collaboration with her husband. Through her experiments she discovered two radioactive elements Radium and Polonium. Her husband died in an accident, in 1908. After his death she continued her research alone. She was appointed as a professor of general science at the Sorbonne University and was the first lady to teach there. She helped to establish Radium institutions in France, Poland and in the U .S. A. She won the noble prize in 1903 for physics and won it again in 1911 for chemistry. As a result of her constant exposure to radioactive substances she contacted leukemia but she continued her research. However, leukemia overpowered Marie and she died in 1934. The books she used are still found to be radioactive. This great scientist gave her life in the name of science. Following her footsteps, in 1935 her daughter Irene Joliot Curie won the Nobel price in chemistry The element curium was named after these two dedicated scientists Marie and Pierre.   Sajith Bhagya Baddegama Previous    Contents    Next
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