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Curie, Marie (1867–1934) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., Marie ( 1867–1934 ) Polish scientist who specialized in work on radiation . Marie and her husband Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ) (who specialized in the electrical and magnetic properties of crystals) worked together on a series of radiation experiments. In 1898 , they discovered radium and polonium . In 1903 , they shared the Nobel Prize in physics with A. H. Becquerel . In 1911 , Marie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize (this time for chemistry), for her work on radium and its compounds. She died of leukaemia caused by...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry (8 ed.)
..., Marie ( Marya Sklodowska ; 1867–1934 ) Polish -born French chemist , who went to Paris in 1891 . She married the physicist Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ) in 1895 and soon began work on seeking radioactive elements other than uranium in pitchblende (to account for its unexpectedly high radioactivity). By 1898 she had discovered radium and polonium , although it took her four years to purify them. In 1903 the Curies shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel , who had discovered radioactivity. In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
...in soldiers’ wounds. Marie's younger daughter, Ève ( b. 1904 ), became a journalist and later wrote a celebrated biography of her mother, Madame Curie ( 1937 ). Marie, who had suffered from various illnesses as a result of her long exposure to radioactivity, died of aplastic pernicious anemia on 3 July 1934 . [ See also Joliot‐Curie, Irène , and Science, subentry Natural Sciences .] Bibliography Curie, Ève . Madame Curie . Translated by Vincent Sheean . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1937. Curie, Marie . Pierre Curie . Translated by Charlotte ...
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
..., Marie , née Sklodowska ( 1867–1934 ). Physicist . Born in Poland, she was one of the first scientists to investigate the phenomenon which she named radio‐activity. She and her fellow physicist, Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ), whom she married, discovered the elements polonium and radium ( 1898 ), and gave their name to a measure of radioactivity. She became the first woman professor at the Sorbonne , against considerable odds, and a champion and role model for higher education opportunities for women. Her pioneering work gained her Nobel Prizes for...
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A Dictionary of Physics (8 ed.)
...Curie, Marie ( Marya Sklodowska ; 1867–1934 ) Polish -born French chemist , who went to Paris in 1891 . She married the physicist Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ) in 1895 and soon began work on seeking radioactive elements other than uranium in pitchblende (to account for its unexpectedly high radioactivity). By 1898 she had discovered radium and polonium , although it took her four years to purify them. In 1903 the Curies shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel , who had discovered radioactivity. In 1911 she was awarded the...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
...by the new elements. Pierre died in 1906 in a road accident. Marie , by then with two daughters ( see Joliot-Curie, Irène ), succeeded to her late husband's chair of physics at the Sorbonne. Much of Marie's later life was spent in raising funds to pursue her research and to establish an appropriate institution in which to pursue the work. Fortunately Marie Curie's US admirers presented her with one gram of radium in 1921 , when it was worth $100,000. The Sorbonne created for her the Curie Laboratory which, though opened in 1914 , had to wait for the end...
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A Dictionary of Chemical Engineering
...Curie, Marie ( née Marja Sklodowska 1867–1934 ) A Polish -born scientist noted for her work on ionizing radiation. Taught by her father, she was not accepted by Warsaw University but at the age of 24 she instead went to study in Paris. There she married Pierre Curie (1859–1906) four years later. Together they discovered radium and polonium. They extracted less than a gram of radium from eight tonnes of pitchblende, which was noted for its high radioactivity . In 1903, together with Henri Becquerel , the Curies received the Nobel Prize for...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Marie Marie Curie 1867 – 1934 Polish -born French physicist One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. letter to her brother, 18 March 1894 In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. to an American journalist, 1904; Eve Curie Madame Curie (1937) In science , we must be interested in things interested in things Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. attributed to be feared to be ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Marie Marie Curie 1867 – 1934 Polish -born French physicist In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. to an American journalist, c. 1904, after she and her husband Pierre had shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with A.-H. Becquerel Eve Curie Madame Curie (1937) In science , we must be interested in things things, not in persons Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. attributed to be feared to be ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...Marie Curie ( Marie Sklodowska ) 1867 – 1934 Polish-born French physicist We believe the substance we have extracted from pitch-blende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium , from the name of the original country of one of us. In Eve Curie, Madame Curie (1938), 169 extracted from pitch-blend polonium : we propose to call it polonium In science we must be interested in things, not in persons. In Eve Curie, Madame Curie ...
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
...There in the early 1930s her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot found that bodies could be made artificially radioactive by irradiating them with neutrons. They shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1935 . Marie Curie did not live to see this family triumph. She died in 1934 after suffering for some years from the results of her intimate association with radium. Marie Curie , Pierre Curie (1923; reprint 1963). Anna Hurwic , Pierre Curie (1995). Susan Quinn , Marie Curie (1996). J. L....
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A Dictionary of Scientists
..., Marie Skłodowska (1867–1934) Polish–French chemist Marie Skłodowska's father was a physics teacher and her mother the principal of a girls' school in the Polish capital Warsaw. She acquired from her father a positivism and an interest in science although to aid the family finances she was forced, in 1885 , to become a governess. She seems to have been on the fringe of nationalist revolutionary politics at a time when Polish language and culture were very much under Russian domination, but her main interest at this time appears to have been science....
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The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors (2 ed.)
..., Marie Skłodowska ( 1867–1934 ) Polish -born French chemist , wife of Pierre Curie . *...
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