Marie+Curie+-+Separation+of+Radium

= Marie Curie = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html  Date of Death- July 4, 1934 Place of Origin- Warsaw, Poland. Year of Discovery-1903 **
 * Date of Birth- November 7, 1867

 Marie Curie was the daughter of a secondary school teacher and started off with a very basic education, she went to the public schools of her home town Warsaw and was given very basic scientific training by her father. Frightened in continuing studies in Poland because of the Russian government controlling Poland, Curie went to Paris to continue her studies. Not only did she earn Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences at Sorbonne University, but she also met her future husband and laboratory assistant. His name was Pierre Curie, and he was a Professor in Physics.

Currie and her husband loved working in the laboratory, even though their conditions were nowhere near suitable for organized experimentations. To make things worse, they were very low on funds and were forced to teach for many hours every day. However, “the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant researches and analyses which led to the isolation of polonium, named after the country of Marie's birth, and radium. Mme. Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular” (nobelprize.org). It was with this discover that Mme, Currie declared that atoms were not indestructible and did not last forever, thus changing the foundation of chemistry scientist had been basing their research off of for centuries.

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