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	Marie Curie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marie Sklodowska Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology.
		Marie Curie (Polish Maria Skłodowska-Curie, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and a two-time Nobel laureate.
		Eight years later, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie_Curie (1083 words)

	Curie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Marie Sklodowska’s interest in science was stimulated by her father, a professor of physics in Warsaw.
		In 1895 she married Pierre Curie and engaged in independent research in his laboratory at the municipal school of physics and chemistry where Pierre was director of laboratories (from 1882) and professor (from 1895).
		She was made director of the laboratory of radioactivity at the Curie Institute of Radium, established jointly by the Univ. of Paris and the Pasteur Institute, for research on radioactivity and for radium therapy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cu/Curie.html (557 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867—1934) was the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes: the first in 1903 in physics, shared with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel for the discovery of the phenomenon of radioactivity; and the second in 1911 in chemistry for the discovery of the radioactive elements polonium and radium.
		The daughter of impoverished Polish schoolteachers, Marie worked as a governess in Poland to support her older sister in Paris, whom she eventually joined.
		Marie Sklodowska Curie - biography from the Nobel e-Museum.
	www.chemheritage.org /EducationalServices/chemach/ans/msc.html (352 words)

	Marie Curie - Wikipédia
		Marie Curie, de seu nome completo Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Varsóvia, 7 de Novembro de 1867 – Sancellemoz, 4 de Julho de 1934) foi uma cientista polaca.
		Juntamente com o seu marido, Marie começou, então, a estudar os materiais radioactivos, procurando novos elementos radioactivos que, segundo a hipótese que os dois defendiam, deveriam existir em determinados minérios como a pechblenda (que tinha a curiosa característica de ser mais radioactiva que o urânio que dela era extraído).
		Marie Curie morreu perto de Salanches, França, em 1934 de leucemia, devido, seguramente, à exposição maciça a radiações durante o seu trabalho.
	pt.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie_Curie (853 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		CURIE, Marie (1867–1934) and Pierre (1859–1906), French physicists and Nobel laureates, who were wife and husband; together, they discovered the chemical elements radium and polonium.
		Curie thus began studying uranium radiations, and, using piezoelectric techniques devised by her husband, carefully measured the radiations in pitchblende, an ore containing uranium.
		Marie Curie was the first to use the term radioactive to describe elements that give off radiations as their nuclei break down.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/inventions/curie_marie.html (546 words)

	MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On 26 July, 1895, in Sceaux, France, Marie Sklodowska, daughter of Professor Wladyslaw Sklodowska of Warsaw, Poland became the wife of Pierre Curie, son of Dr.and Mme.
		The 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics was jointly awarded to Pierre and Marie Sklodowska Curie and Henri Becquerel for the discovery of the two radioactive elements, radium and polonium.
		Marie Curie has been invited to occupy the Physics chair at the Sorbonne held by her late husband, Pierre Curie, until his recent accidental death.
	www.woodrow.org /teachers/chemistry/institutes/1992/MarieCurie.html (1355 words)

	Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield - Physics Today July 2003
		Marie Sklodowska Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, had the equivalent of master's degrees in both physics and mathematics from the Sorbonne.
		Marie, although she was a physicist, became responsible for most of the chemical work, while Pierre focused on the physical examination of the rays.
		Marie not only hauled equipment to these locations, but also set it up and participated in x-ray examination of the wounded--a task in which she was joined by her teenage daughter Irène.
	www.physicstoday.org /vol-56/iss-7/p37.html (4607 words)

	JCE Online: Biographical Snapshots: Snapshot
		Marie Curie was awarded a Ph.D. in 1903 for her work on the discovery and isolation of two elements, polonium and radium.
		Marie was the first to use the terms "radioactive" and "radioactivity" to describe the elements exhibiting this property of matter, as well as the property itself.
		Marie Curie established the Radium Institute at the University of Paris in 1914, which became a worldwide center for research on nuclear physics and chemistry.
	jchemed.chem.wisc.edu /JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/Bios/Curie.html (652 words)

	Curie, Marie
		The sudden death of Pierre Curie (April 19, 1906) was a bitter blow to Marie Curie, but it was also a decisive turning point in her career: henceforth she was to devote all her energy to completing alone the scientific work that they had undertaken.
		Marie Curie, now at the highest point of her fame, and, from 1922, a member of the Academy of Medicine, devoted her researches to the study of the chemistry of radioactive substances and the medical applications of these substances.
		One of Marie Curie's outstanding achievements was to have understood the need to accumulate intense radioactive sources, not only for the treatment of illness but also to maintain an abundant supply for research in nuclear physics; the resultant stockpile was an unrivaled instrument until the appearance after 1930 of particle accelerators.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/154_32.html (1147 words)

	Inventor Marie Curie
		Marie Sklodowska, as she was called before marriage, was born in Warsaw in 1867.
		Marie dreamed of being able to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, but this was beyond the means of her family.
		Curie’s work was not only a leaping-off point for the modern field of nuclear medicine, but it helped lay the groundwork for the most important development in 20th-century science--the discovery of the structure of the atom.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/curie.htm (1332 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie
		Madame Curie’s discovery of the radioactive substances radium and polonium, her initial hypothesis on the nature of uranium being a radioactive substance (she was the first to use the term, “radioactivity”), and her correct insight into the power of uranium (and that of all radioactive substances) as derived from the atom itself, was revolutionary.
		Marie Sklodowska Curie was not simply a great scientist; she was a magnificent human being, and her love of science and her commitment to truth were reflected in her personal character, which was beyond reproach.
		Marie’s experiment was to gather all the known elements she could beg from laboratories and university departments, and to put them all to the test.
	www.21stcenturysciencetech.com /articles/wint02-03/MarieSklodowskaCurie.html (5282 words)

	Marie Curie - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher.
		Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant researches and analyses which led to the isolation of polonium, named after the country of Marie's birth, and radium.
		Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular.
	nobelprize.org /chemistry/laureates/1911/marie-curie-bio.html (737 words)

	Science in Poland - Maria Sklodowska-Curie
		Maria Sklodowska was born as the fifth and youngest child of Bronsilawa Boguska, a pianist, singer, and teacher, and Wladyslaw Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics.
		Maria Curie, now at the highest point of her fame, and, from 1922, a member of the Academy of Medicine, devoted her researches to the study of the chemistry of radioactive substances and the medical applications of these substances.
		Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium by Nanny Fröman
	www.staff.amu.edu.pl /~zbzw/ph/sci/msc.htm (2347 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A noted chemist and physicist, Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867.
		Marie discovered her love for physics and chemistry early in life and dreamed of studying at the Sorbonne, in Paris.
		Shortly after these discoveries, Marie was awarded her doctorate and later, after her husband's tragic death in 1906, was asked to succeed him in his professorship in physics at the Sorbonne, the first time such an honor had been awarded to a woman.
	www.polishamericancenter.org /Curie.htm (345 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie \| Physicist
		The Curie's began a search for the source of the radioactivity and discovered two highly radioactive elements, "radium" and "polonium." The Curie's won the 1903 Nobel prize for physics for their discovery.
		Madame Curie continued her work on radioactive elements and won the 1911 Nobel prize for chemistry for isolating radium and studying its chemical properties.
		On July 4, 1934, at the age of 67 Madame Curie died of leukemia (aplastic pernicious anemia), thought to have been brought on by exposure to the high levels of radiation involved in her research.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/95nov/curie.html (750 words)

	Learn more about Marie Curie in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the Sorbonne she met another instructor, Pierre Curie and married him; together they studied radioactive materials, particularly the uranium ore pitchblende, which had the curious property of being more radioactive than the uranium extracted from it.
		Curie was the first woman laid to rest under the famous dome of The Panthéon in Paris on her own merits.
		During a period of hyperinflation in the 1990s, she was on the Polish 20000-zloty banknote.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/ma/marie_curie.html (604 words)

	Marie Curie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Curie, or rather Marya Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867.
		Marie then studied pitchblende, a uranic mineral in which she measured a much more intense activity than is present in uranium alone.
		Marie died of leukaemia in July, 1934, exhausted and almost blinded, her fingers burnt and stigmatised by "her" dear radium.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CURIE/marie.html (1498 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie
		Marie amava persino l'aria che si respirava nel laboratorio, il silenzio, la concentrazione quasi palpabile, il raccoglimento intorno al proprio alambicco o alla cappa del camino da cui uscivano gas e fumi puzzolenti.
		Marie si accorge che in alcuni minerali l'intensità di radioattività è fortissima e non può essere giustificata dalla minima quantità di torio e uranio in essi contenuta.
		Marie muore il 4 luglio 1934, mentre sta portando a termine un altro dei suoi lavori, stroncata da un'anemia perniciosa aplastica, conseguenza della lunga esposizione alle sostanze radioattive.
	www.akisrx.com /htmdue/marie_sklodowska_curie.htm (3763 words)

	Marie Curie - a biography Page 1
		Marie Curie took on many roles during her lifetime: wife, mother, research scientist, college student, polish patriot, institute director, fundraiser, x-ray technician, mentor and teacher.
		Marie's grandfather, Jozef Sklodowski, was also a teacher and a school principal with strong "republican views." He put his career on the line by encouraging children of peasant families to study and allowing them in the same classes with the children of the nobility.
		Marie's father, for example, was demoted as principal of his school and a Russian was brought in to replace him.
	www.hypatiamaze.org /marie/curie_bio.html (1158 words)

	Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie: pictures Pierre biography scientist photo
		MARIE Curie became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person of either sex to win two Nobel Prizes.
		Marie (Marya, in Polish) Sklodowska was the youngest of five children.
		The Curies had shown that the atom was not inert, but that it was full of energy which it gave off as heat and radiation.
	www.emeagwali.com /marie-curie (1577 words)

	Marie Sklodowska Curie
		The thing I've always found amazing about Marie Curie is that she was able to force her way to the top of her field, namely science, when it was considered to be exclusively for men.
		She was a pioneer in the studies of radium and polonium, and was instrumental in the understanding of radioactivity.
		And the research that her husband Pierre, and Marie Curie did, led to the understanding of the atom as being an entity that could be split to release enormous energy.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/5647/msc.html (641 words)

	Active Skim View of: 2 Marie Sklodowska Curie
		Marie performed perfectly, but she was so tense that, when the inspector left, she burst mto tears.
		Marie also did the heavy physical labor, well aware that she was doing menial work that any technician could have accomplished.
		At the height of the sensationalism, on November 4, 1911, Marie Curie received a letter from the Nobel Foundation notifying her that she would be awarded a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry for her discovery of radium.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309072700&chap=9-36 (1107 words)

	Marie Curie-Sklodowska Studies Mysterious Rays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in November Marie Curie was born in November, 132 years ago, but she is still one of the most famous scientists in the world.
		Marie was born in Poland in 1867, which was ruled by Russia at the time.
		Marie wrote, "Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself." The place where they worked made the whole process even worse.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/kids_chemistry/28720 (486 words)

	CWP at physics.UCLA.edu // Sklodowska Curie
		Conjectured the radiation, which Henri Becquerel called uranic rays, emanated from atoms of uranium, and deduced from quantitative studies of the radioactivity of samples of coal and pitchblende that there were other radioactive elements besides uranium.
		Reference material on Marie Curie, her life and her work, is readily available; some books in which one may read about the significance of her discoveries for physics, and her life, are:
		Pasachoff, Naomi Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity, Oxford University Press, 1966.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~cwp/Phase2/Curie,_Marie_Sklodowska@812345678.html (349 words)

	WIC Biography - Marie Sklodowska Curie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie and Pierre Curie devoted their lives to moving forward the frontiers of science.
		Marie Curie proved with her research that radioactivity is an atomic property and, in 1911, received her second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for the discovery of polonium and radium, the isolation of radium and the study of its nature and compounds.
		As a wife and mother, Marie Curie touched her family with love and devotion, as a scientist she touched the world and opened a new window on the universe.
	www.wic.org /bio/mcurie.htm (203 words)

	Radioactivity: Historical Figures
		In his honor, the 1910 Radiology Congress chose the curie as the basic unit of radioactivity: the quantity of radon in equilibrium with one gram of radium (current definition: 1 Ci = 3.7x1010 dps).
		A year later, Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her discoveries of radium and polonium, thus becoming the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes.
		Marie Curie died July 4, 1934, overtaken by pernicious anemia no doubt caused by years of overwork and radiation exposure.
	www.accessexcellence.org /AE/AEC/CC/historical_background.html (1433 words)

	Marie Curie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology.
		Born in Warsaw, Poland, her first years were sorrowful ones, marked by the death of her sister and, four years later, her mother.
		During a period of hyperinflation in the 1990s, her picture was on the Polish 20,000-zloty banknote.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Marie-Curie.htm (913 words)

	Hurwic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		De cette façon, Marie et Pierre Curie inventèrent la méthode des indicateurs radioactifs qui trouvera plus tard, de nombreuses applications en physique, chimie, biologie, médecine, agriculture et dans l’industrie.
		Marie Curie utilisait l’appellation « poids atomiques » tandis que les chimistes contemporains préféraient se servir de la notion d’équivalent comme grandeur résultant des relations massiques, déterminées expérimentalement, entre des éléments formant des composés chimiques.
		Mais il ne faut pas oublier que ce fut Marie Curie qui, la première, déjà dans les années 1899-1900, avait parlé de la transformation de l’atome radioactif, bien que seulement comme l’une des différentes explications possibles de ce phénomène.
	www.ccr.jussieu.fr /curie.100/fulltext/hurwic.html (1120 words)

	Marie Curie Winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Her son-in-law, the director of the Nobel Peace Prize Winning Institution UNICEF, Henry R. Labouisse was married to Eve Curie.
		Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium
		Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity (submitted by Caroline L. Herzenberg)
	nobelprizes.com /nobel/physics/1903c.html (205 words)

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