Marie Curie

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Marie Curie

• BY Laura,Miriam
• 8TH period

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MARIA CURIE
In 1995 Maria's ashes were enshrined in the
Pantheon. The Pantheon is France's memorial to
its nation's heroes. She was the first woman to
receive this honor.
Maria Curie, one of the most famous scientists in
the world, dedicated her life to physics and
chemistry. Maria Curie was born on November 7,
1867, in Warsaw, Poland.
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In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her
studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained
Licentiateships in Physics and the Mathematical
Sciences.
She went to Paris and she met Pierre Curie,
Professor in the school she study, in the
following year they were married.
She was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867
death of Pierre Curie in 1906,
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Why is she important to us today!!!!
A towering figure in the history of chemistry and
physics, Marie Curie is most famous for the
discovery of the elements polonium and radium.
Prohibited from higher education in her native
Poland
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Things that she invented
Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of
the radioactive elements polonium and radium and
as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For
scientists and the public, her radium was a key
to a basic change in our understanding of matter
and energy

• Study of radioactivity, discoverer of polonium
  and radium

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