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Marie Curie

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  • The girl was born!

    Birth of Miss Curie, in Warsaw
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    The life os Miss Curie

  • Going to Paris

    She went to Paris, and obtained the licenciateships im Math and physics
  • She met Pierre Curie <3

  • She and Pierre Currie get married

  • Discovery of radioactivity by Henry Becquerel inspires Miss Curie to begin researches about the theme

  • Succeded her husband in Head of the Physics Laboratory of Sorbonne

  • Doctor of Science degrees

  • . Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physicsfor their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize

  • She also received, jointly with her husband, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society

  • After the death of her husband, she took his place as professor of General Physics in he Faculty of Sciences

  • Member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay

  • second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity

  • Director of the Curie laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris

  • President Harding of the United States, on behalf of the women of America, presented her with one gram of radium in recognition of her service to science

  • member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations

  • Curie died in Savoy, France, for leukemia