Curie

Marie and Pierre Curie by Amber G

By agutt1

  • Pierre Curie was born

  • Marie Curie was born

  • Marie Curie Graduated School with a Gold Medal

  • Marie Curie went to France to study at the Sorbonne

  • Marie Curie was awarded a degree in physics

  • Marie met the French chemist Pierre Curie

  • Marie Curie earned a second degree

  • Pierre Curie received his doctorate and was promoted to professor in the School

  • Marie and Pierre were married in a civil union

  • Curies announced the existence of an unknown radioactive substance found in pitchblende that was more radioactive than uranium

  • Marie had had a part-time teaching post at the École Normale Supérieur de Sèvres for girls

  • Curies isolated radium chloride

  • Marie Curie presented the findings of this work (isolated one decigram of almost pure radium chloride and had determined radium's atomic weight as 225) in her doctoral thesis

  • Marie Curie recieved Nobel Prize in Physics

  • Pierre Curie died

  • Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie recieved Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • Marie Curie founded the ‘Radium Institute’ in Warsaw, Poland

  • Marie Curie died