Radioactive material

by Marie Curie

Radioactive material** Knowledge Natural Science Collection, Making Knowledge, selects only works that will remain a legacy of humanity. It is a collection of high-quality natural sciences, where experts who have studied the work for a long time provide accurate translations, professional commentary, rich author introductions, and friendly comments.** Knowledge making large knowledge books ＞ This book is written in large print for readers who have difficulty reading with poetry or presbyopia. All classic anthologies of knowledge are made in large print.** Marie Curies 2nd Nobel Prize-winning Radioactive Element Detector. Who is the Nobel Prize winner? A little more than a century ago, the Alpha Girl scientist Marie Curie has shaken the world. She melted the pitch blend to refine pure radium chloride and determined the atomic weight of a new chemical element called radium. This was possible because radium had the property of emitting radiation. Curie first defined the term radioactivity and paved the way for the study of radioactive material.

Paperback

Published November 25, 2014

About the author

Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irène Joliot-Curie.

While an actively loyal French citizen, she never lost her sense of Polish identity. Madame Curie named the first new chemical element that she discovered (1898) "polonium" for her native country, and in 1932 she founded a Radium Institute (now the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology) in her home town, Warsaw, headed by her physician-sister Bronisława.