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 * __Marie Curie__ ** ** By sydneyn551 **

__Early Life__ __Career__ __Radioactivity__ __Bibliography__
 * Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867.
 * When she was 24, she moved to Paris with her older sister, Bronya.
 * Marie attended the Sorbonne in Paris to learn science and mathematics. She intended to return to Poland to teach.
 * In 1894 Marie met Pierre Curie at the home of a friend. He was already a distinguished scientist, and they began a partnership.
 * On July 26, 1895, Marie married Pierre and became Marie Curie.
 * Marie worked with Pierre in the School of Physics and Chemistry in Paris.
 * Her next goal was to work on a doctorate and become the first woman in Europe to complete one.
 * Henri Becquerel had discovered that uranium gave off powerful rays, invisible to the eye.
 * Pierre and his brother had invented an electrometer, which measured electrical currents in the air.
 * Marie decided to use an electrometer to test as many samples of metal and minerals as she could obtain.
 * She discovered that the only variable that affected the strength of the rays was the amount of uranium.
 * However, when she tested pitchblende for the rays, it gave off stronger rays than uranium.
 * Marie had discovered the elements radium and polonium.
 * She and Pierre were awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering radioactivity.
 * Pierre Curie suddenly died in 1906, and Marie took his place as professor of the Sorbonne.
 * In 1910, Marie was denied entry to the Academy of Science.
 * During World War I, Marie Curie obtained X-ray machines and vans. She then installed the X-ray machines in the vans, and drove them to the front lines. She made 20 of them, which were called Petite Curies.
 * When Marie visited America in 1921, people were shocked that she only had one gram of radium, less than American scientists had.
 * President Harding gave her another gram of radium.
 * Marie Curie died in July 4, 1934 of leukemia caused by radioactive poisoning.
 * Certain elements give off invisible rays, similar to X-rays.
 * Those elements are called radioactive.
 * Radioactivity can cure cancer because the rays alter chemicals inside cells.
 * Workers who deal with radioactive materials are protected by layers of lead or concrete.
 * Marie and Pierre Curie had no such protection, and both had damage to their bodies from handling radium.
 * Birch, Beverly. Marie Curie: Courageous Pioneer in the Study of Radioactivity. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 2000. Print.
 * //Invention: Elements and Compounds// Discovery Education, 2000 . Full Video.Discovery Education. Web. 6 September 2013. [|__http://www.discoveryeducation.com/__].
 * "Marie Curie." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 6 Sep. 2013. < [|__http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/28252__] >.
 * //Yannuzzi, Della. New Elements : The Story of Marie Curie. Greensboro: Morgan Reynolds Publishing. Pri[[image:SHN - Radium.jpg width="476" height="354" align="left" caption="A diagram of the electrons in the element radium"]][[image:researchthetopic/SHN - Warsaw Poland.jpg width="311" height="280" align="right" caption="Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland"]]//