Marie Curie's Second Nobel Prize

However, the relationship of Pierre and Marie completely juxtaposed this social norm of the era. They worked furiously to isolate polonium and radium and when they were successful credit was given mainly to Pierre. Originally the Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to be awarded to Henry Becquerel and Pierre Curie in 1903. Marie Curie would not be credited because it was viewed by the public that she only “assisted” Pierre with “his” experiments. Pierre did not like to be recognized for his work, but insisted that Marie be credited and be a recipient of the prize which made Marie Curie the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

With her experiments, she became the first woman in France to get a doctorate. Curie decided to continue Henri Becquerel’s experiments with X-rays. She came up with the groundbreaking idea that the rays were actually an atomic property. The paper she wrote reporting her discoveries had to be presented through her professor because women weren’t allowed to address the Academy of Sciences. With this, she continued her work to find new elements. First, she found polonium, which is named for her home country, and then she discovered radium. Pierre and Marie’s greatest work was done in a run-down shed. They worked from 1898 to 1902. The Curies could have made a fortune if they patented their process of extracting and refining radium, but they decided share their knowledge with the world.

Marie curie made history in 1903 when she became the first woman to get a Nobel Prize in physics. With their prize winning the Curie’s got an international reputation for their scientific efforts. With the prize money they continued their research and went even further. The next year in 1904, they had their second daughter Eve. In 1906 Marie suffered a tremendous loss; when Pierre accidentally

I believe Marie Curie has contributed more to society then Louis Pasteur because she discovered radium, was very determined, and installed x-rays machines in hospitals.

Born as Maria Skłodowska on November 7,1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was born to a family who viewed education as very important and essential. She had four siblings; four sisters Sofia, Helena, Bronislawa and a brother Joseph. Due to her father teaching Physics, Marie developed interest in reading and physics. She began to attend a “floating” school to learn since she couldn’t obtain higher education because she was a woman. She overcame many obstacles and discovered things that help cure diseases and gave insights to different aspects of science.

Lisa meitner was born 7 November 1878 she is a resident of Austria Germany Sweden and United Kingdom. At the age of eight years old she started to keep records of math and science. Lisa went to Austrian Swedish, she worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was the second woman to obtain a doctoral degree. When she was in the University she took everything seriously. Lisa's partner was Otto Hahn they let a small group. They discovered nuclear fission of uranium. The nuclear weapons created in the US during World War II. They use nuclear weapons against Japan. Most of her scientific career was in Berlin.

I was so excited to wake up today. It is the year 1903. All of my difficult work has finally paid off! Today is the day I will receive a Nobel Prize. It's not only me who is being awarded this prestigious prize. My husband, Pierre Curie, and my colleague, Antoine-Henri Becquerel, are sharing this prize with me as well. Sadly, my husband or I cannot attend due to the fact that we are too sick.

Over one hundred years ago, in 1911, a French-polish woman was awarded not her first but second Nobel Peace Prize. This time for discovering a new element. She was awarded, “"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." This was and still is a fascinating and remarkable element. Radium has had an intense history of misuse which led to tragic effects on many, but once used properly it has become essential for the treating of certain cancers. Radium has been a controversial element in America’s history but in the end it has proven useful. The focus of this paper will be Radium:

In 1903, Marie Curie won the Noble Physics Prize. Her and her husband won the Davy medal together. Despite having won in 1903, the couple didn’t make the trip to get awarded till 1905. Marie Curie was a big scientist in her time, so it wasn’t surprising that she was working on her scientific studies between being awarded and collecting the awards. I find this inspiring because she put what mattered to her more first,

Marie Curie did all sorts of things from helping in World War I to making prodigious discoveries, she had many different accomplishments, many of which helped technology advance just a little bit further. Marie Curie was a very inspirational woman to many, and still is today. She is still recognized for many of her discoveries and deeds she volunteered, all for science. Marie Curie gave her all to science with knowledge, inspiration, hard work, and patience.

Chemist Marie Curie was a courageous and purposeful pioneer who worked on the filed of radioactivity. My admiration is not only for her academic knowledge but also for her admirable personalities and attitudes toward science. Her biggest achievement made her became the first woman to receive Nobel Prize and unimaginably, the first human to receive two.

Marie Curies studies put her at the front of the “nuclear age.’ Her studies of all the compounds containing known radioactive elements, which included uranium and thorium, which was later found to be radioactive, lead her to the conclusion that,

Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw Poland. which, being controlled by Russia was very suppressed. Marie’s mother worked as a teacher as did her father, and they made sure that their daughter had a great education. As Marie grew up she began to see how the Russians suppressed the Polish people :for example her father lost his job. Whenever Marie was old enough to go to college, She worked out a deal with her sister, while one was at college in Paris the other would get a job to help support the other. Marie’s sister went first ,and so Marie got a job as a governess. When it was Marie’s turn to go to college she went to the Sorbonne and moved to Paris. Soon after she started college, she decided to get degrees in physics and calculus.

She is the most famous female scientist of all time, and has received numerous posthumous honors. To date, Curie is the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, but her second win set her apart as the only scientist, of either gender, to win two Nobel Prize awards. Marie paved the road for future female scientists, of the 357 people who have ever won a STEM-related Nobel Prize, only 16 of them have been female. In 1995, her and her husband's remains were interred in the Panthéon in Paris, the final resting place of France's greatest minds. Curie became the first and only woman to be laid to rest there. Curie also passed down her love and understanding of science to the next generation. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie followed in her mother's footsteps, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. Joliot-Curie shared this honor with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, for their work on their synthesis of new radioactive elements. Even today several educational, research institutions, and medical centers use the Curie name, including the Institut Curie and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, both can be found in

     It was not easy for Marie and Pierre to convince the science community of their new findings. Marie succeeded in separating the radium from the barium, but it wasn't easy. She had to treat very large amounts of pitchblende, but she had plenty of pitchblende to use. (The Curie's