Marie Curie

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Marie Curie

• An Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

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Marie CurieAn Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

• Manya Sklodowska- Curie, Otherwise known as Marie
  Curie, is held up as an icon, Representation of
  what it means to be successful woman in Science.
• She was praised and rewarded by contemporaries
  for her discovery of the elements radium and
  polonium .
• her research work on radioactivity lead to
  further discoveries a bout the atom and leading
  to the development of treatment of cancer.

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Marie CurieAn Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

• Marie Curie, was a two- time winner of the Nobel
  Prize for her work on radioactivity.
• In 1897 she completed and published her work on
  the magnetic properties steel in the Bulletin of
  the society for encouragement of national
  industry.
• Between 1881 and 1894, beginning at age twenty
  four , she earned two degrees. Both equivalent
  to a baccalaureate degree, in physics and
  Mathematics.

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Marie CurieAn Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

• In 1894 she won the polish Alexandrovith
  scholarships, which allowed polish students to
  pursue their education outside of Poland.
• In July 1897 she married to Pierre Curie.
• Pierre and Marie became collaborators in science.

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Marie CurieAn Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

• Marie Curie and Pierre Curie shared the 1903
  noble prize for physics with Henri Becquerel for
  their discovery of radioactivity.
• In 1922, Marie Curie was made a member of the
  academy of medicine of Paris, for the part she
  played in discovering radium.
• She was also the sole winner of the 1911 noble
  prize in chemistry.
• She was the first women admitted to an academy in
  France.

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Marie CurieAn Icon For Women Scientists1867-1934

• Cure's life was a life of firsts, and her work is
  certainly a testament to what women scientist can
  achieve.
• In 1892, when she entered the Sorbonne
  University, their were only 210 women enrolled
  out of a student population of nine thousand.
• Certainly Marie Curie is exceptional, not only
  among female scientist but among scientist in
  general.