By: Irene Papacosta Elena Sammouti Despo Patsia Sevilay Gorener Eser Saracoglu

1. Marie Curie By: Irene Papacosta Elena Sammouti Despo Patsia Sevilay Gorener Eser Saracoglu (Also known as the Curies)

2. Contents • Marie Curie´s Early Life • Marie Curie´s Life after she moved to Paris • Her Tragic Death • Her scientific work • Prizes

3. Marie Curie´s Early Life • Marie Curie, (Maria Sklodowska), was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. • She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris tocontinue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences.

4. Marie Curie´s Life after she moved to Paris • She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.

5. Her scientific work • Her most important observation was that certain mining uranium presented much more powerful radioactivity. • On 18 July 1898 the Curies announce in the scientific community the discovery of a new element, that on 25 December of same year is announced by the pair of Curies as the discovery of radion. Maria Kjoyrj became acquaintance for the discovery of radion and the studies on the radioactivity.

6. Her Tragic Death • In 1934 she died from cancer in Savoy which is in France. Her sickness was due of the radiation.Then the people called her “the woman who died for science. In 1934 she died from cancer in Savoy which is in France. Her sickness was due of the radiation.Then the people called her “the woman who died for science.”

7. Prizes • Nobel Prize for Physics (1903) • Davy Medal (1903) • Matteucci Medal (1904) • Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911)

8. Trivia • Her brothers at order of age: Sofia, Mpronjsoyava, Elena and Jwsif. • It had left from the house of her brother because the distance from the university. • Institution Nobel, Nobel Natural 1936. • The French newspapers published personal letters to the Lanzevan, in which the Curie described the movements that it would be supposed it makes in order to it takes divorce from his woman. • So much big it was the general outcry, that the Swedish Academy symvoyleyse Maria Kjoyrj' to go it receives the reward because the scandal. The Curie answered that "the reward to me him you gave for the discovery of elements ra'djo and polw'njo. I believe that does not exist relation ana'mesa in my scientific work and in elements of my private life... "

9. Our opinion about Marie Curie We thing she is a very important scientist because she investigated many important investigations which helped the world to be better. We can know that because of the Nobel Price she won.