Marie Curie

Hello classmates, today I’m going to talk about my favorite scientist, she is Maria Salomea Sklodowska – Curie better known has Marie Curie was a polish scientist, nationalized French. She was born in November 7, 1867 and died on July 4, 1934 because of an anemia caused by one of her experiments.

She was pioneer in the field of the radioactivity, she was the first person to win two Novel prizes (in Physics and in Chemistry) and she was the first female professor at the University of Paris. She shared the Novel prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with the physicist Henry Becquerel; 8 years later won the novel prize in Chemistry for discovering two new chemical elements (Radium and Polonium), one of them called him as her native country.

Her achievements include the development of theory of radioactivity, isolation techniques of radioactive isotopes and the discovery of various chemicals elements. Based on her studies of the radioactivity during the First World War she created the first radiologic centers for military use.

However, her continued radiation exposure, took her to periods of weakness and to die of leukemia. I like her because despite the prejudices of the time, she keeps doing what she loves, which science and research. And she succeeded in everything he did, it is demonstrated in her two Nobel prizes, that’s all I hope you like this post.