Half-Life

By KGTimeline

  • Phoebe Sarah Marks [Hertha] is born

  • Marya Sklodowska (Marie Curie) is born

  • Hertha entered Girton College at University of Cambridge

  • Hertha passes her examinations

    Cambridge didn't offer women degrees until 1948.

  • Hertha began classes on electricity at Finsbury Technical College

    Taught by William Edward Ayrton

  • Hertha marries William Ayrton

  • Barbara Bodichon Ayrton is born

  • Marya moves to Paris and changes her name to Marie

  • Marie starts classes at the University of Paris

    Also known as "the Sorbonne"

  • Marie gets her Master's in Physics

  • Marie and Pierre Curie meet

    Spring of 1894

  • Marie gets her Master's in Math

  • Period: to

    Dreyfus Affair

  • Hertha publishes her work on the hissing lamp in "The Electrician"

  • Marie and Pierre get married

  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen accidently discovers X-rays

  • Henri Becquerel discovers radiation, Marie begins to study it

    Although, it wasn't known as that yet. Marie Curie named it "raditation"

  • Irene Curie is born

  • Marie and Pierre announce the existence of Polonium

  • Marie and Pierre announce the existence of Radium

  • Hertha is asked to read a paper for the Institution of Electrical Engineers

    She was the first woman to do so.

  • Hertha becomes the first woman granted membership to the Institution of Electrical Engineers

  • Radium Chloride is officially isolated

  • Proposed as a candidate for the Fellow of the Royal Society

  • Marie gets her Doctorate

    She is the first woman in France to do so.

  • Marie, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

    For research and discovery of radiation

  • Eve Curie is born

  • Hertha is awarded the Hughes Medal

  • Pierre Curie dies in a traffic accident

  • Marie takes over Pierre's job as professor at the University of Paris

    She is the first woman to be a professor in France

  • Marie publishes her Treatise on Radioactivity

  • Marie Curie successfully isolates Radium

  • Marie doesn't get into the Academy by one vote

  • News of the affair is leaked

  • Letters are published

  • Paul and Gustave Téry Duel

  • Marie is awarded her second Nobel Prize

  • Barbara is arrested for a window-smashing demonstration

  • The Radium Institute is finished

  • The first "Little Curies" enter circulation

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • Austria declares war on Serbia. WW1 begins.

  • Germany declares war on Russia

    Germany allied with Austria.
    The Russians mobilized with France.

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Marie meets with President Harding

  • Marie is voted into the Academy of Medicine of Paris

    First woman in France to be accepted into an academy.
    She was a spontaneous vote, as she didn't run for candidacy.
    All other candidates for the chair dropped out when she was announced.

  • Marie is unanimously voted into the League of Nations as a member of International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation

  • Hertha Ayrton dies of septicemia

  • Marie Curie dies