Marie Sklodowska Curie
1867-1934
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Marie Sklodowska Curie1867-1934 |
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Initiated systematic studies of natural radioactivity.
"Radiations from Compounds of Uranium and of Thorium," Comptes Rendus 126: 1101 (1898).
Conjectured the radiation emanated from single atoms, and deduced from her quantitative studies of the radioactivity of samples that there were present in coal and pitchblende other radioactive elements in addition to uranium; thus she discovered with P. Curie polonium, radioactive thorium, and other heretofore unknown radioactive elements including radium.
"New Radio-Active Element in Pitchblende," Comptes Rendus 127: 175 (1898) with P. Curie.
"Another New Radio-active Element," Comptes Rendus 127: 1215 (1898) with P. Curie and G. Bémont.
Nobel Prize (physics) with Pierre Curie 1903
for "joint researches on the radiation phenomenon discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Humphrey Davy Medal with Pierre Curie 1903
Nobel Prize (chemistry) 1911
for "discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element."
Pais, Abraham Inward bound: of matter and forces in the physical world, Oxford University Press, New York 1986.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries ,Birch Lane Press, New York 1993.
Quinn, Susan Marie Curie: A life, Simon & Schuster, New York 1995.
Curie, Eve Madame Curie, Doubleday, 1938. Reprint. Da Capo, 1986.
A brief biography and some further reading .
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