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Historical person (Personal life (She met her husband, he was professor of…
Historical person
Personal life
She met her husband, he was professor of the School of Physics.
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She died on 4 July 1934 from leukaemia, caused by exposure to high-energy radiation from her research.
1897 and 1904 The couple had two girls, Irene and Eve, as her mother Irene won a Nobel Prize along with her husband. for their work on the synthesis of new radioactive elements.
In 1906 her husband was killed in Paris after accidentally stepping in front of a horse-drawn wagon.
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Studies
In 1891, she went to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne
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During World War One she helped to equip ambulances with x-ray equipment, which she herself drove to the front lines. The International Red Cross made her head of its radiological service and she held training courses for medical orderlies and doctors in the new techniques.
Marie wanted to attend a university, but this wasn't something that young women did in Poland in the 1800s. The university was for men. However, there was a famous university in Paris, France called the Sorbonne that women could attend.
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Recognitions
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She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics
She received a second Nobel Prize, for Chemistry, in 1911.
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Continued to face great opposition from male scientists in France, and she never received significant financial benefits from her work.
Achivements
In July 1898, the Curies announced the discovery of a new chemical element, polonium. At the end of the year, they announced the discovery of another, radium.
1906 She became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne, she took the place of her husband