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Katie Stevenson

Marie Curie Biography - 2 views

  • first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry)
  • discovery of polonium and radium
  • the development of X-rays
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  • died on July 4, 1934
  • youngest of five children
  • a bright and curious mind and excelled at school.
  • continued her education in Warsaw's "floating university,
  • informal classes held in secre
  • five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess
  • spare time to study, reading about physics, chemistry and math.
  • 1891, Curie finally made her way to Paris where she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Pari
  • completed her master's degree in physics in 1893 and earned another degree in mathematics the following year
  • Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays.
  • rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium
  • This revolutionary idea created the field of atomic physics and Curie herself coined the word radioactivity to describe the phenomena.
Austin Wampler

Nuclear Weapon Types and History - 0 views

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