Marie curie

Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on 7 November, 1867 the daughter of a middle-school teacher. He received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father.
 He became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and with prudent to leave Warsaw, then part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time under the dominion of Austria. In 1891, he went to Paris to continue his studies at the Sorbonne where he earned Licenciateships in Physics and Mathematics. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics in 1894 and they married the following year. She succeeded her husband as head of the Laboratory of Physics at the Sorbonne, gained Doctorate of Science in 1903, and after the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, he took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, the first time a woman has held this position.He was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.
Initial studies, along with her husband, often performed under difficult conditions, laboratory equipment is poor and both had to do much teaching to earn a living. The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in a brilliant research and analysis that led to the isolation of polonium, named after Marie's native country, and radium. Mme. Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow characterization and careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular.
Mme. Curie throughout her life actively promoted the use of radium to alleviate suffering and during World War I, assisted by his daughter, Irene, she personally devoted herself to work improved. He retained his enthusiasm for science throughout his life and did much to establish a radioactive laboratory in his home town - in 1929 President Hoover United States is presented with a prize of $ 50,000, donated by American friends of science, to purchase radium for use in laboratory in Warsaw.
Mme. Curie, quiet, dignified and simple, is held in high esteem and admiration by scientists throughout the world. He is a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until his death and since 1922 he became a member of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation League of Nations. His work is noted in numerous papers in scientific journals and he is the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (1904), L'Isotopie et les Element Isotopes and the Traité de classic 'Radioactivité (1910).
The importance of Mme. Curie's work is reflected in the many forms of reward in itself. He received a lot of medical science, honor and law, and an honorary member of the group of learners around the world. Together with her husband, she was awarded half the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of Hadiah.Pada 1911 he received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, as recognition of his work in radioactivity. He also received, together with her husband, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903 and, in 1921, Harding President of the United States, on behalf of the American woman, presented with one gram of radium in recognition of his services to science.For more details, cf. Biography of Pierre Curie. Mme. Curie died in Savoy, France, after suffering from illness, on July 4, 1934.From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967This autobiography / biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and published in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as