Marie Curie Research Paper
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Marie Curie once said “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” (“Marie Curie Quotes”). Many people are fearful of radioactivity and its effects on a person’s health, but Marie Curie dedicated her life to researching radioactivity so more could be understood about radioactivity. Marie Curie was a pioneer in physics and an inspiration for women in scientific fields. Thanks to Marie Curie’s curiosity, radioactivity is something that is understood today, so people can be less fearful. Through the examination of the life and accomplishments of Marie Curie, her influence on the world, especially for her work in physics and chemistry, it becomes abundantly clear that …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Opines that marie curie was a pioneer in physics and an inspiration for women in scientific fields.
- Explains that marie curie's early life was filled with hardships, but she persevered and accomplished great things.
- Analyzes how marie curie excelled in her career despite growing up in poverty. after her husband died in a carriage accident, she applied for membership to the french academy of sciences, but was denied membership.
- Explains that marie curie's accomplishments during her career have an important influence in science.
- Analyzes how marie curie's scientific discoveries have influenced the development of new medical technology. the radium institute is a pioneer in cancer research and care.
- Concludes that marie curie has not only influenced science and medicine, but she is also an inspiration to women.
This is an example of one of the many times Marie Curie faced discrimination throughout her career. Then, in 1894, Marie Curie met a French physicist, Pierre Curie, who was studying magnetism and crystals; they were married in 1895 (Des Jardins). Pierre and Marie were both conducting similar research which likely contributed to their relationship. In 1903, Marie Curie was the first woman in France to receive a PhD in physics. “Professors who reviewed her doctoral thesis , which was about radiation, declared that it was the greatest single contribution to science ever written” (Des Jardins). This shows that Marie Curie had excelled in her career despite growing up in poverty. After her husband died in a carriage accident in 1906, Marie was asked to fill her husband’s position at the University of Paris (“Marie Curie Biography”). At Marie Curie’s first lecture, “Hundreds of people - students, artists, photographers, celebrities - lined up outside the university on November 5, 1906, hoping to attend her first lecture” (Des Jardins). This is an
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- Explains that marie dreamed of attending the sorbonne university in paris and needed to travel to advance in her education. to financially support bronya, marie worked as a governess.
- Describes marie's use of brachytheraphy to collect radon gas from radium, which she sealed in glass tubes and dispersed to civilian and military hospitals.
- Explains nuclear medicine, a relatively new technique based on marie skodowska-curie's discoveries, which uses substances labeled with radioisotopes introduced into the organs of the patient for imaging of tumors.
- Explains that marie curie's motivation to expand her knowledge of science drove her to find a university she could attend.
- Explains marie and pierre curie's research on radiation emitted from uranium rays. marie measured radioactivity using piezoelectric electrometers developed by pierre.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that marie curie was always one step ahead of herself. she wanted to find something no one else had found and make things nobody would ever think about making.
- Narrates how marie curie was born in warsaw on november 7, 1867. she was the daughter of a secondary-school teacher, and her father taught her some scientific training.
- Narrates how marie curie received a women's education scholarship to study magnetic properties and chemical composition of steel, and was introduced to her husband, pierre, while they were still in college.
- Explains that pierre curie invented several instruments for measuring magnetic fields and electricity. mrs.curie used the instruments to measure the faint electrical currents she detected in air consumed with uranium rays.
- Describes how marie curie tested all known chemical ores to see if any other would emit becquerel rays. the curies found that chalcolite and pitchblende were more radioactive than pure uranium.
- Explains that marie curie was the first woman in europe to get a doctorate in physics. both the curies and becquerel were named the winners of the noble prize in physics.
- Opines that all of the radioactivity exposure took a toile on her body. she passed away on july 4, 1934, from asplasic anemia.
- Opines that marie curie never gave up. even when things were hard, she would fight through them.
530 wordsRead More - Marie Criee: The Life And Life Of Marie Curieexplanatory essayMarie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in the Russian part of Poland. She was the youngest child of five, and the daughter of five well known teachers. She left Poland in 1891 for France, and studied physics, mathematics, and chemistry at the University of Paris. In 1993, she earned her degree in physics and started working in an industrial lab, though she was still studying at University of Paris, and eventually earned a second degree in 1894. Curie fist investigated the magnetic properties of
In this essay, the author
- Explains marie curie was born on november 7, 1867 in the russian part of poland. she studied physics, mathematics, and chemistry at the university of paris.
- Explains how curie pursued uranium rays as a possible research field for her thesis.
- Explains curie's daughter irene was born in 1897 and began teaching at the école normale supérieure. they were unaware of the effects of radiation exposure on their work.
- Explains that curie's systematic studies included two uranium minerals, pitchblende and chalcolite.
- Explains that pierre was intrigued by his wife's work, and by mid-1898, he dropped his work on crystals to join her. curie hurried to publish her findings so that she could lay claim to this early.
- Explains that in december 1903, the royal swedish academy of sciences awarded pierre, marie, and henri becquerel the nobel prize in physics.
- Narrates how curie gave birth to her second daughter, eve, in december 1904, and sent her daughters on trips to poland. on 19 april 1906, pierre was killed in a road accident.
556 wordsRead More - The Career and Discoveries of Madame Curieexplanatory essayMadame Curie Maria Salomea Sklodowska was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the youngest out of five; Bronislawa, Zosia, Jozef, and Helena. Her parents, Wladyslaw and Bronislawa, were educators who persuaded Maria and her siblings to pursue an education. Her mother was the principal of a local girl school and her father a physics teacher. In 1876, Bronislawa and Zosia got Typhoid fever, which in result caused Zosia death at age 14. In a following death, on May 1878, Maria’s mother
In this essay, the author
- Explains that madame curiemaria salomea sklodowska was born on november 7, 1867 in warsaw, poland. her parents, wladyslaw and bronislawa, persuaded maria and her siblings to pursue an education.
- Narrates how maria began attending the boarding school of j. sikorska at age ten and graduated in 1883 with a gold medal. after her graduation, maria sought higher education to attend the university of warsaw.
- Describes how maria left her home and became a governess outside warsaw. she would save her money for two years, send the money to her sister bronislawa and for her medical studies in paris.
- Narrates how maria fell in love with kazimierz zorawski, the eldest in the family, and stayed until she fulfilled her commitment until late 1891.
- Describes how maria enrolled herself at the university of paris for classes of chemistry and mathematics. although she saved some money for herself, her passion for education was not taken for granted.
- Narrates how maria changed her name to marie and met pierre curie at a colleagues house. after her friendship with perrie became love, she married him in 1895.
- Explains marie curie discovered that uranium rays use the air around a sample to conduct electricity. in 1898, she discovered the element thorium to be radioactive.
- Narrates how marie curie and her husband pierre published a paper in 1898, which announced the existence of an element called "polonium" and radium chloride.
- Narrates how marie became the first woman faculty member at the école normale and visited poland on the occasion of her father's death.
- Narrates how marie curie was the first woman to become a professor at the university of paris.
- Explains that marie was the first person to have earned two nobel prizes in two different subjects.
- Narrates how marie curie created x-ray trucks during the war, toured the u.s. in 1921, and became a member of the international commission for intellectual cooperation.
- Describes how marie was elected as a member of the international atomic weights committee in 1930 and took her last trip to poland in 1934. maria salomea sklodowska died in haute-savoie due to radiation exposure.
914 wordsRead More - When Obsession Becomes Deadly: The Life of Marie Curieanalytical essayWhen Obsession Becomes Deadly: The Life of Marie Curie Marie Curie, a pioneer in her field and Nobel Prize winning Chemist, took a path that few women of her time dared and unfortunately, her passion for Science would be her ultimate demise. From birth to death Marie Curie lived a full life, with love, work, and passion at the center. Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława and Władysław Skłodowski. Maria's
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how marie curie, a pioneer in her field and nobel prize winning chemist, lived 'when obsession becomes deadly' with love, work, and passion at the center.
- Narrates how marie and bronya found work tutoring, and with the money they saved enough to go to paris and attend the university of paris for a single year.
- Narrates how marie became a governess after bronya married and invited her to paris to conduct her studies.
- Describes marie's research into uranium rays using a clever technique to investigate samples.
- Explains marie's work that showed that the radiation was not the outcome of some interaction of molecules, but must come from the atom itself.
- Explains that her earlier results relating the quantity of uranium to its activity were correct, and then these two minerals must contain small quantities of some other substance that was far more active than
- Analyzes how skodowska–curie's paper described the activities of pitchblende and chalcolite compared to uranium. she felt a passionate desire to verify this hypothesis as quickly as possible.
- Narrates how pierre curie was convinced that what she had discovered was not a spurious effect. they were unaware of the deleterious effects of radiation exposure.
- Narrates how marie and her husband published a paper in 1898, declaring the existence of an element called "polonium", in honor of her native poland, which would for another twenty years remain partitioned among three empires.
- Explains that in 1898 the curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named "radium" for its intense radioactivity. in 1903, the royal swedish academy of sciences awarded pierre, marie and henri curie the nobel prize in physics.
- Explains that pierre was killed in a street accident on 19 april 1906, when he fell under the wheels of the horse-drawn vehicle and fractured his skull. he may have been weakened by prolonged radiation exposure.
- Narrates how marie was devastated by the death of her husband. she became the first woman to become a professor at the sorbonne.
- Describes marie's death from aplastic anemia, almost certainly contracted from exposure to radiation, at the sancellemoz sanatorium in passy, in haute-savoie, eastern france.
- Explains that she was interred in sceaux, along with her husband pierre, and her remains were transferred to the paris panthéon in 1995. she became the first and only woman to be honored in this way.
- Analyzes how marie skodowski's laboratory is preserved at the musée curie.
- Explains that marie curie: the nobel prize in physics 1903.
1465 wordsRead More - Biography of Marie and Pierre Curieexplanatory essaysome research over Marie and Pierre Curie I was able to put together this paper. This paper contains information about the life of Pierre and Marie Curie and their significance to physics and science in general. Pierre and Marie Curie are best known for their pioneering work in the study of radioactivity. The couple’s work led to their discovery of the elements radium and polonium (Dick). Pierre Curie was born on May 15, 1859. He was born in Paris, France. Pierre’s parents were Eugene Curie and
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the paper contains information about the life of pierre and marie curie and their significance to physics and science in general.
- Explains that pierre curie was born on may 15, 1859 in paris, france. his parents were eugene and sophie-claire depoully.
- Explains that pierre's family lived in simple circumstances, but due to their closeness and affection, they were happy. jacques and pierre were especially close, and the two brothers spent most of their time together.
- Explains that pierre was educated at home by his brother and parents and eugene realized that he was capable of intense concentration, but easily distracted. most of pierre's free time was spent outside in the woods.
- Narrates how pierre was given a private tutor who discovered his interest in mathematics and physics. he earned his bachelor's degree at age 16 and received his licentiate in physics by age 18.
- Explains that pierre's brother, jacques, also worked at the same university. their work led to the discovery of piezoelectricity, which is the electric polarization caused by compression or expansion of crystals.
- Explains that the piezoelectric quartz balance was invented by pierre and jacques and made the way for modern quartz watches and radio transmitters.
- Narrates how pierre took up a new job at the school of industrial physics and chemistry in paris. he struggled to make new friends due to his shy and reserved nature.
- Explains that pierre pursued his studies when he wasn't teaching. he published two papers on crystallography.
- Explains that pierre demonstrated that the magnetism of a substance changes at certain temperatures. he submitted his doctoral thesis of the relation between magnetsm and temperatures to the faculty of sciences of paris in 1895.
- Explains that marie curie was born in warsaw, poland on november 7, 1867. she excelled in school and had a curious mind.
- Narrates how marie curie longed to go abroad and earn an official degree, but did not have the financial resources available to pay for more schooling.
- Narrates how pierre and marie became a scientific dynamic duo in 1895. they were married and used the money to buy bicycles for each of them.
- Describes marie's systematic investigation of the "uranium rays" using an electrometer based on the piezoelectric effect.
- Explains marie's next idea was to study the natural ores that have uranium and thorium. she learned from the samples from geological museums and found that pitchblende was about five times more active than was motivated by the amount of
- Explains that pierre and marie discovered that the strong activity came with the fractions that contained bismuth or barium. in 1898, they had a substance that was 300 times more strongly active than uranium
- Explains that marie and pierre needed to produce new elements to determine their atomic weight and isolate them. they needed tons of expensive pitchblende for the procedure to become possible.
- Describes how pierre and marie needed more room to work. the principal of the school that pierre worked at came to their rescue and allowed them to use a large shed that was not occupied.
- Explains that marie and pierre were awarded half the nobel prize in physics in 1903 (froman). half went to antoine henri becquerel to recognize the services he rendered by discovering radioactivity.
- Narrates how marie was the first woman to be appointed to teach at sorbonne (froman) after pierre curie was run over by a horse-drawn wagon.
- Narrates how marie gave her first lecture at a large amphitheater. the audience was filled with students, journalists, professors, and people from all over.
- Describes marie's ideas of how she wanted her daughters to be educated. she organized a private school where the parents acted as the teachers.
- Describes marie as the first woman to be appointed at sorbonne. she produced several decigrams of very pure radium chloride and isolated it in metallic form with andre debierne.
- Describes how pierre and marie published over thirty papers on radioactivity. they could have become rich by patenting their process of extracting radium, but the curies refused to do so.
2002 wordsRead More - Women Scientists: Marie Curieanalytical essayMarie Curie is widely regarded as a talented scientist whose work has changed the world. She is best known for her discovery of radium and polonium and her work with radioactivity. Curie encountered times of adversity in her career due to prejudice against women in her field, but she met her challenges and overcame them. Marie Curie exceeded the barriers put on women in her time to become one of the world’s most famous scientists and used her knowledge to the benefit of humanity. Marie Curie was
In this essay, the author
- Explains that marie curie is a talented scientist whose work has changed the world. she is best known for her discovery of radium and polonium and her work with radioactivity.
- Explains that marie curie was born marya salomee sklodowska on november 7, 1867 in russia controlled poland. her father encouraged her to see everything as a learning experience.
- Describes how sklodowska blazing a path for women as she succeeded in an academic field dominated by males. with perseverance and little money, she graduated at the top of her class.
- Narrates how marie sklodowska met pierre curie when joseph kowalski, a polish physicist, introduced them to study the magnetic properties of various types of steel.
- Describes how curie became the first woman in france to get a doctorate with her revolutionary experiments with x-rays and uranium.
- Explains that marie curie's reputation as a world-class scientist was established when she became the first woman to receive the nobel prize in physics.
- Narrates how marie curie became the first female professor at la sorbonne and applied to the academy of sciences in 1910, but was denied because she was a woman.
- Explains that marie curie won a second nobel prize in 1911 for discovering the elements radium and polonium and investigating their properties. the scandal ruined her public image and she refused to attend the celebration.
- Analyzes how marie curie helped the war effort by protecting something that she knew had great potential for harm.
- Analyzes how curie helped the military effort in world war i with her portable x-ray stations, which saved the lives and limbs of thousands of soldiers.
- Opines that marie curie's work on radioactivity, which gave her immortality, eventually caused her death.
- Opines that marie curie's discoveries continue to be important. the curies' research was essential in the development of x-rays and radium is used in medical treatments.
- Analyzes how marie curie's biography was published in livescience, techmedia network, and success.
1340 wordsRead More - How To Write An Essay On Maria Salomea Sklodowskiexplanatory essayon November 7, 1867. Both of her parents, Władysław and Bronisława Skłodowski, were educators. Marie had four other siblings, three sisters and a brother. Zosia, Józef, Bronya and Hela. She was the youngest of all five children. As educators, both of her parents desired for their girls to be educated as well as their son. When she was only 10, Marie lost her mother, Bronislawa, to tuberculosis. Marie received general education from local schools and graduated from high school first in her class
In this essay, the author
- Explains that maria salomea sklodowski was born in warsaw, poland, on november 7, 1867. she had four siblings, three sisters, and a brother.
- Describes curie's experiments on uranium rays and how she coined the word radioactivity to describe the phenomenon.
- Explains that marie curie received the davy medal of the royal society in 1903, shared with her husband, and was of recherches sur les substances radioactives.
- Explains that marie curie promoted the use of portable x-ray machines in the field, and these medical vehicles earned the nickname "little curies."
- Describes marie curie as the most famous female scientist of all time. she was a member of the conseil du physique solvay from 1911 until her death and since 1934.
1245 wordsRead More - Marie Curie and The Discovery of The X-Rayanalytical essayand their course of action. To prove their scientific excellence, a scientist may receive various awards to show public recognition. Marie Curie is considered the greatest scientist in European history because of her work and commitment to science that has left an impact on all of Europe. Despite the work of other great scientists, namely Antoine Becquerel, Marie Curie proved to be the greatest scientist in European history by earning many awards, becoming the first female scientist, and assisting
In this essay, the author
- Explains that marie curie is considered the greatest scientist in european history because of her work and commitment to science that has left an impact on all of europe.
- Explains that marie curie won numerous awards and recognitions throughout her scientific career, proving to the public that she had a strong commitment to science.
- Analyzes how curie's discoveries were found at a time when women were held inferior to society.
- Explains that marie curie's discoveries on the x-ray are important in modern-day medicine and can treat and cure diseases. the invention of the little curies helped save one million soldiers during world war i.
- Analyzes how antoine becquerel contributed significantly to science, including the discovery of uranium rays and the advancement of the x-ray.
984 wordsRead More - What´s Radioactivity and What can it be used for?explanatory essaywith paper-covered photographic plates. He found that the crystals had clouded the plates when they were developed. Becquerel was extremely excited by this discovery. He called the rays “uranic rays” and assumed they came exclusively from the element uranium. The scientist Marie Curie became curious about “uranic rays” and began to research them. She worked with her husband to invent a machine that measured weak electric currents so she could test different rock samples for the rays. Curie found
In this essay, the author
- Explains marie curie's curiosity about uranic rays led her to conduct more studies on this mysterious property of matter, called radioactivity.
- Explains that radiation is the emission of subatomic particles and/or waves. the different types of radiation have different potencies that affect what they can penetrate.
- Explains that radioactivity has the connotation of being dangerous, but can be wonderfully helpful. it remains one of the most fascinating phenomena that humans have discovered.
- Describes how marie curie's work paved the way for radioactivity to become the tool for good it can be today.
- Explains that the way to measure radiation has greatly changed over time. hans geiger made a machine that can detect radiation.
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