The Life and Work of Chemists

Through the years of modern science many people have come and gone making contribution to science whether it be chemistry physics or another scientific field. Some people were able to produce accomplishments in multiple fields including chemistry. Marie Curie was able to make contributions in physics and chemistry just as Nobel was an engineer and a chemist in the form of creating dynamite. Finally the man of physics Michael Faraday was able to make a contributions to chemistry that are still being used to this day.

On November 7, 1867 Marie Curie was born Maria Salomea Sklodowska to parents Wladyslaw Skodowski and Bronislaw Sklodowska in Warsaw Poland. Curie was brilliant from early years learning to read at age 4 and finishing high school at the age of 15. She went on to study at Warsaw’s clandestine. At age 24 Curie went on to study in Paris just as her sister did in medical fields. At the age of 28 Marie Curie was able to marry her spouse Pierre Curie in France in the year 1895. However this marriage was cut short and Pierre died just 11 years after. Marie contributed most of her known work in France and during her time there she became the first woman to earn a nobel prize in physics in 1903 which she shared with her husband and Henri Becquerel in the field of physics. She won another nobel prize in chemistry 8 years later in 1911 in chemistry. In the year 1934 Curie died in France because of aplastic anemia which one gets from overexposure to radiation. It is believed this was caused by her work in WW1 where she was using her self created x ray units.

A major piece of work contributed by Marie Curie to the field of chemistry was the discovery of two new radioactive elements: Radium, and Polonium (named afte...

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...er on nobel created dynamite, a form of explosive that is still being used today. Nobel understood that nitroglycerin is very volatile in its natural state. In order to fix this problem Alfred nobel was able to mix this liquid with silica, turning it into a paste which we know as dynamite. this was incredibly useful for mining because it could form a cylindrical shape and be put into holes created by drills for mining.

So, all for all these chemist have lived their lives and were able to produce significant advances to the field of chemistry whether it be finding a new element, or creating an explosive that will revolutionize the field of mining. These people are even able to make a contributions that we use in our chemistry labs to this day in the form of a bunsen burner. These people have all lived and done great things changing the field of Chemistry forever.