A Brief Biography Of Marie Curie

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My chemist is Marie Curie, she was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw,Poland. Marie Curie was famous because she helped with the discovery of X-rays. She was the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislawa Sklodowska. She was the youngest of 5 kids (three sisters and a brother). She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize award and the only woman to win it in two different fields (chemistry and Physics). I choose Marie Curie as my chemist because when I was searching for a chemist to do a report on, I read a short biography about her and it said that she discovered Polonium and Radium. It said that those two radioactive elements helped with the development of X-rays and I know that X-rays are very useful and important nowadays. Marie Died in July 4, 1934. Did you know that Marie Curie died of Aplastic Anemia, which is caused by too much exposure to Radiation? One quote she said is “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie was born as Maria Sklodowska. When Marie Curie was only 11 years old her mother died of Tuberculosis. That was a very hard impact on her and h...

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