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Marie Curie’s relentless resolve and insatiable curiosity made her an icon in the world of modern science. Indefatigable despite a career of physically demanding and ultimately fatal work, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in Nature at the time, it was to be named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Curie as well, and is in later literature considered to be named for both.
The 1896 discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel inspired Marie Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie to further investigate this phenomenon. They examined many substances and minerals for signs of radioactivity.
Marie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes.
Estadísticas. Abstract (Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Radioactivity) There is no other woman in the history of science better known than Marie Curie. She was the first woman Professor at the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, after more than six hundreds years, the first woman to obtain a Nobel Prize, the first scientist to obtain a second.
Marie Curie and The Science of Radioactivity - Contents. ARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes.
