Marie Curie: A Life (Radcliffe Biography Series)

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Robert William Reid (1974). Marie Curie. New American Library. pp.63–64. ISBN 978-0-00-211539-1. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016 . Retrieved 15 March 2016. In late 1891, she left Poland for France. [25] In Paris, Maria (or Marie, as she would be known in France) briefly found shelter with her sister and brother-in-law before renting a garret closer to the university, in the Latin Quarter, and proceeding with her studies of physics, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Paris, where she enrolled in late 1891. [26] [27] She subsisted on her meagre resources, keeping herself warm during cold winters by wearing all the clothes she had. She focused so hard on her studies that she sometimes forgot to eat. [27] Skłodowska studied during the day and tutored evenings, barely earning her keep. In 1893, she was awarded a degree in physics and began work in an industrial laboratory of Gabriel Lippmann. Meanwhile, she continued studying at the University of Paris and with the aid of a fellowship she was able to earn a second degree in 1894. [14] [27] [b] a b c Robert William Reid (1974). Marie Curie. New American Library. p.65. ISBN 978-0-00-211539-1. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016 . Retrieved 15 March 2016. Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18thed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15253-2.

In the last ten years of her life, Marie had the joy of seeing her daughter Irène and her son-in-law Frédéric Joliot do successful research in the laboratory. She lived to see their discovery of artificial radioactivity, but not to hear that they had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it in 1935. Marie Curie died of leukemia on July 4, 1934. Epilogue Kabzińska, Krystyna (1998). " Chemiczne i polskie aspekty odkrycia polonu i radu" [Chemical and Polish Aspects of Polonium and Radium Discovery]. Przemysł Chemiczny (The Chemical Industry) (in Polish). 77: 104–107. Marie regularly refused all those who wanted to interview her. However, a prominent American female journalist, Marie Maloney, known as Missy, who for a long time had admired Marie, managed to meet her. This meeting became of great importance to them both. Marie told Missy that researchers in the USA had some 50 grams of radium at their disposal. “And in France, then?” asked Missy. “My laboratory has scarcely more than one gram,” was Marie’s answer. “But you ought to have all the resources in the world to continue with your research. Someone must see to that,” Missy said. “But who?” was Marie’s reply in a resigned tone. “The women of America,” promised Missy. Miłosz, Czesław (1983). The History of Polish Literature. University of California Press. p.291. ISBN 978-0-520-04477-7. Undoubtedly the most important novelist of the period was Bolesław Prus...

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Life and career Early years Władysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890 She was also an active member in committees of Polonia in France dedicated to the Polish cause. [62] After the war, she summarized her wartime experiences in a book, Radiology in War (1919). [61] Postwar years In June 1903, supervised by Gabriel Lippmann, Curie was awarded her doctorate from the University of Paris. [25] [44] That month the couple were invited to the Royal Institution in London to give a speech on radioactivity; being a woman, she was prevented from speaking, and Pierre Curie alone was allowed to. [45] Meanwhile, a new industry began developing, based on radium. [42] The Curies did not patent their discovery and benefited little from this increasingly profitable business. [32] [42] Nobel Prizes 1903 Nobel Prize portrait 1903 Nobel Prize diploma Marie Curie's business card as professor at the Faculty of Sciences

However, University of Cambridge historian of science Patricia Fara writes: "Marie Skłodowska Curie's reputation as a scientific martyr is often supported by quoting her denial (carefully crafted by her American publicist, Marie Meloney) that she derived any personal gain from her research: 'There were no patents. We were working in the interests of science. Radium was not to enrich anyone. Radium... belongs to all people.' As Eva Hemmungs Wirtén pointed out in Making Marie Curie, this claim takes on a different hue once you learn that, under French law, Curie was banned from taking out a patent in her own name, so that any profits from her research would automatically have gone to her husband, Pierre." Patricia Fara, "It leads to everything" (review of Paul Sen, Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe, William Collins, April 2021, ISBN 978 0 00 826279 2, 305 pp.), London Review of Books, vol. 43, no. 18 (23 September 2021), pp. 20–21 (quotation, p. 21). Curie is the subject of the 2013 play False Assumptions by Lawrence Aronovitch, in which the ghosts of three other women scientists observe events in her life. [106] Curie has also been portrayed by Susan Marie Frontczak in her play, Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie, a one-woman show which by 2014 had been performed in 30 U.S. states and nine countries. [107] Lauren Gunderson's 2019 play The Half-Life of Marie Curie portrays Curie during the summer after her 1911 Nobel Prize victory, when she was grappling with depression and facing public scorn over the revelation of her affair with Paul Langevin. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front, a French-Belgian film, directed by Alain Brunard [ fr] and starring Dominique Reymond.Robert William Reid (1974). Marie Curie. New American Library. pp.61–63. ISBN 978-0-00-211539-1. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016 . Retrieved 15 March 2016. a b Quinn, Susan (1996). Marie Curie: A Life. Da Capo Press. pp.176, 203. ISBN 978-0-201-88794-5. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015 . Retrieved 7 September 2015. Between 1898 and 1902, the Curies published, jointly or separately, a total of 32 scientific papers, including one that announced that, when exposed to radium, diseased, tumour-forming cells were destroyed faster than healthy cells. [41] At that time, no one else in the world of physics had noticed what Curie recorded in a sentence of her paper, describing how much greater were the activities of pitchblende and chalcolite than uranium itself: "The fact is very remarkable, and leads to the belief that these minerals may contain an element which is much more active than uranium." She later would recall how she felt "a passionate desire to verify this hypothesis as rapidly as possible." [37] On 14 April 1898, the Curies optimistically weighed out a 100-gram sample of pitchblende and ground it with a pestle and mortar. They did not realize at the time that what they were searching for was present in such minute quantities that they would eventually have to process tonnes of the ore. [37] Around 1886, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated experimentally the existence of radio waves. It is said that Hertz only smiled incredulously when anyone predicted that his waves would one day be sent round the earth. Hertz died in 1894 at the early age of 37. In September 1895, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal over a distance of 1.5 km. In 1901 he spanned the Atlantic. Hertz did not live long enough to experience the far-reaching positive effects of his great discovery, nor of course did he have to see it abused in bad television programs. It is hard to predict the consequences of new discoveries in physics.

When someone very special dies: children can learn to cope with grief (1988)by Marge Heegaard (Woodland Press) a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Estreicher, Tad Barker, Dan (2011). The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God. Ulysses Press. p.171. ISBN 978-1-56975-846-5. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015 . Retrieved 7 September 2015. In addition to helping to overturn established ideas in physics and chemistry, Curie's work has had a profound effect in the societal sphere. To attain her scientific achievements, she had to overcome barriers, in both her native and her adoptive country, that were placed in her way because she was a woman. [17] Crawford, Elisabeth, The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution, The Science Prizes 1901-1915, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, & Edition de la Maison des Sciences, Paris, 1984.A storybook which helps to answer some of the questions children might have about death, by telling the story of a water bug who turns into a dragonfly. A picture book to help bereaved children grieve when someone close to them dies. Written by a parent living with a terminal illness, this book also comes with guidance on supporting grieving children from Child Bereavement UK. Marie worked hard to find a cure for cancer - nobody knew that working with radium was dangerous. But it was and because of this Marie became very ill and died. She used an innovative technique to investigate samples. Fifteen years earlier, her husband and his brother had developed a version of the electrometer, a sensitive device for measuring electric charge. [30] Using her husband's electrometer, she discovered that uranium rays caused the air around a sample to conduct electricity. Using this technique, her first result was the finding that the activity of the uranium compounds depended only on the quantity of uranium present. [30] She hypothesized that the radiation was not the outcome of some interaction of molecules but must come from the atom itself. [30] This hypothesis was an important step in disproving the assumption that atoms were indivisible. [30] [31]

Persuaded by his father and by Marie, Pierre submitted his doctoral thesis in 1895. It concerned various types of magnetism, and contained a presentation of the connection between temperature and magnetism that is now known as Curie’s Law. In 1896, Marie passed her teacher’s diploma, coming first in her group. Their daughter Irène was born in September 1897. Pierre had managed to arrange that Marie should be allowed to work in the school’s laboratory, and in 1897, she concluded a number of investigations into the magnetic properties of steel on behalf of an industrial association. Deciding after a time to go on doing research, Marie looked around for a subject for a doctoral thesis. Irène was now 9 years old. Marie had definite ideas about the upbringing and education of children that she now wanted to put into practice. Her circle of friends consisted of a small group of professors with children of school age. Marie organized a private school with the parents themselves acting as teachers. A group of some ten children were accordingly taught only by prominent professors: Jean Perrin, Paul Langevin, Édouard Chavannes, a professor of Chinese, Henri Mouton from the Pasteur Institute, a sculptor was engaged for modeling and drawing. Marie took the view that scientific subjects should be taught at an early age but not according to a too rigid curriculum. It was important for children to be able to develop freely. Games and physical activities took up much of the time. Quite a lot of time was taken for travel, too, for the children had to travel to the homes of their teachers, to Marie at Sceaux or to Langevin’s lessons in one of the Paris suburbs. The little group became a kind of school for the elite with a great emphasis on science. The children involved say that they have happy memories of that time. For Irène it was in those years that the foundation of her development into a researcher was laid. The educational experiment lasted two years. Subsequently the pupils had to prepare for their forthcoming baccalauréat exam and to follow the traditional educational programs. A second Nobel Prize Provides a range of ideas for parents and carers so that they feel able to involve their children in what is happening. The book also includes some suggestions about what parents might say to children and how to offer support.In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the existence of X-rays, though the mechanism behind their production was not yet understood. [30] In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emitted rays that resembled X-rays in their penetrating power. [30] He demonstrated that this radiation, unlike phosphorescence, did not depend on an external source of energy but seemed to arise spontaneously from uranium itself. Influenced by these two important discoveries, Curie decided to look into uranium rays as a possible field of research for a thesis. [14] [30] A child’s grief: supporting a child when someone in their family has died (2009) by Di Stubbs (Winston’s Wish) L. Pearce Williams (1986). "Curie, Pierre and Marie". Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 8 . Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, Inc. pp.331–332. Never too young to know: death in children’s lives by Phyllis Silverman (1999) (Oxford University, Press Inc) A book that was created to help children understand the changes when someone in their family has a serious illness. Each section of text has a blank space underneath for children to illustrate and show their own feelings about what’s happened.