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Marie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.
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Radioactivity- the amount of phosphorescent energy rays that an element gives off.;
X-ray - A reading given by sending radioactive rays through an object.;
Element- a substance that cannot be further broken down.; -
Marie landed in Paris to attend this special school where she could choose to attend her classes and even to take tests.
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Wilhelm Roentgen invented the X ray for medical uses and the whole was in love with them.
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Married- 1895;
Had Irene - 1897;
Had Eve - 1904; -
While studying pitchblende, Marie discovered two radioactive elements - polonium and radium.
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In order to make two huge advances in elements, Marie was probably great at math.
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Cause: Marie and Pierre discovered and often handled radioactive elements.
Effect: Marie and Pierre became weak and very sick, then die early -
Marie and Pierre finally- after a few years, many tons of pitchblende, and fifty tons of water- extracted a few grains of pure radium.
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They receive their first Nobel prize for their radioactive work.
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Pierre is finally accepted to teach at the Sorbonne and they have another baby girl named Eve.
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Pierre was killed in an incident. He was too weak to pull himself up after a horse ran him over and the following carriage crushed his skull.
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Cause: Pierre dies in an accident.
Effect: Marie takes over his former job. -
After Pierre's death Marie won her own solo Nobel prize.
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Marie Curie and her daughter Irene take portable "little curies" to help soldiers in WW1.
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Marie Curie was a living - and non-living - example of the power and danger of radioactivity so that no one must suffer the same consequences.
