Something out of Nothing by Carla Killough McClafferty. This story is an amazing novel on how radium was discovered.
By adambom
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She was born november 7, 1867 in warsaw poland
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This was a life changing event in maries life, it made her depressed.
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Marie was hired to do a study of magnetic properties of steel in laboratory with pierre.
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marie curie becomes intrested in glowing rays from radioactivity -
Maries daughters name was Irene
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the newspaper articles led people to beleive radium was the answer to almost any phyical problem. -
after pierre's tragic death from getting his skull crushed by a horse drawn wagon. marie took his place at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to work there.
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during WWI Marie took the radium and put it in a safe so it can be protected
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The Radium Institute was finished around July 1914 and was used for marie to continue her lab work with radium.
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These were Marie's Mobile Field X Ray Units for the war they started working at 1914 and ended 1919.
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The radium girls sued the radium whatch painting company becuase they all got radiatoin sickness and died. -
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She was elected to the french academy for her contribution to radiological medicine. -
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radithor was the deadliest of all radium products becuase it contained the highest dose of radium. -
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Marie visited the United States and was honored by Warren G. Harding and Herbert C. Hoover and she was given a gram of radium worth $100,000 -
marie died becuase of overexposure to radium.
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after mining the natural radium underground, people had paid to sit in the underground mines to expose themselve to radon believing they could cure their physical problems. -
they were moved to a small cemetery in sceaux in the pantheon were frances most famouse people were buried.
