Something out of Nothing by Carla Killough McClafferty. This story is an amazing novel on how radium was discovered.

Marie's birth

Nov 7, 1867

She was born november 7, 1867 in warsaw poland

Mom dies of tuberculosis

Aug 5, 1878

This was a life changing event in maries life, it made her depressed.

Marie graduates second in her class in math

Jan 1, 1894

STEEL

Mar 14, 1894

Marie was hired to do a study of magnetic properties of steel in laboratory with pierre.

Marie meets Pierre Curie

Jul 26, 1895

a glow

Mar 15, 1896

(not a valid month and day)
marie curie becomes intrested in glowing rays from radioactivity

Maries first daughter was born

Jan 1, 1897

Maries daughters name was Irene

Curie's discovered polonium and radium

Mar 14, 1898

newspapers causing trouble.

Mar 16, 1900

(Not a valid date)
the newspaper articles led people to beleive radium was the answer to almost any phyical problem.

Pierres accident

Apr 19, 1906

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.

WWI

Mar 15, 1914

during WWI Marie took the radium and put it in a safe so it can be protected

Radum Institute

Jul 16, 1914

The Radium Institute was finished around July 1914 and was used for marie to continue her lab work with radium.

Little Curies

Jul 28, 1914

These were Marie's Mobile Field X Ray Units for the war they started working at 1914 and ended 1919.

Radium Girls

Mar 16, 1917

(not a valid month and day)
The radium girls sued the radium whatch painting company becuase they all got radiatoin sickness and died.

french academy

Mar 15, 1922

(not a valid month and day)
She was elected to the french academy for her contribution to radiological medicine.

radithor

Mar 16, 1925

(not a valid month and day)
radithor was the deadliest of all radium products becuase it contained the highest dose of radium.

Marie visits U.S.A

Mar 15, 1929

(not a valid month and day)
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

maries death

Jul 4, 1934

marie died becuase of overexposure to radium.

Danger

Mar 16, 1950

(not a valid month or day)
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.

Marie and pierre's death

Mar 16, 1995

they were moved to a small cemetery in sceaux in the pantheon were frances most famouse people were buried.