Saturday, 18 January 2014

Marie Curie

Bio:-
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. 
  • She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. 
  • She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
  • Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. 
  • Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes.
  •  She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today.
  •  During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.
  • She won the Nobel Prize is Physics(along with her husband) and Chemistry
  • Died due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation

Birth:-
  • 7 November 1867
  • Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire

Death:-
  • 4 July 1934 (aged 66)
  • Passy, Haute-Savoie, France



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