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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

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  • Pierre Curie Born

    Pierre Curie Born

    Pierre Curie was born in Paris, France
  • Marya Sklodowska Born

    Marya Sklodowska Born

    Marrie Curie (Born Marya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw, Poland.

  • Pierre began his doctoral thesis

    Subject: Magnetic proberties of bodies at diverse temperatures

  • Marie curie hired by the society for the incouragement of national industru

    to study the magnetic properties of steel
  • Marie and Pierre Wed

    Marie and Pierre Wed

    "They took their bicycles, riding the coast of Brittany."

  • Vilhem Rontgen creates the first X-ray

    A photograph of his wifes fingers and wrists

  • Irene Curie Born

  • Discovery of Polonium

    Discovery of Polonium

  • Discovery of Radium

    Discovery of Radium

  • Extraction of Raduim Chloride

    The curies extracted one tenth of gram of Raduim chloride.

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Born

    The father of the Atomic Bomb Born in New York

  • Eve Curie Born

  • Pierre Curie dies in a carrage accident

  • Mme. Langevin outs Marie and Paul's affair

  • Marie travels to Sweden to claim her second Nobel Prize

  • War starts in Europe

  • A German U-20 torpedoed the Lusitania, killing more than 1000 people

  • Frederic Joliot begins working for Marie

  • Irene and Frederic Marry

  • Helene, Irene and Frederic's daughter, is born

  • Pierre, Irene and Frederic's son, is born

  • the Joliot-Curies discover artificial radiation

  • Irene and her husband find out they've recieved the Nobel Proze for their discovery of artificial radioactivity

  • Hungarian physisist Leo Szilard(scientist on the Manhattran project) asked Irene and Frederic not to publish their discoveries for fear of it falling into the germans hands

  • Szilard and Albert Einstein write to FDR, informing him that they were able to build the first atomic weapon

  • Germans March into Paris

  • Period: to

    The Manhattan Project in Operation

    Construcion of the first atomic and hydrogen bomb.

  • Marie Curie passes away

  • Period: to

    Soviet Communist Dominance in Poland

    Although it led to the the urbanization and industrialization of the country, Poland was marred by social unrest and economic depression.

  • Irene Travels to U.S. to give a series of speaches

  • First Nuclear Reactor in Operation

  • Dr. Edward Barsky Fired from post at Atomic Energy Commission

  • Period: to

    almost 1,000 nuclear bombs were detonated in the nevada desert as part of the u.s. atomic testing program

  • Underground Nuclear testing begins

  • Three mile island meltdown

  • chernobyl explosion

  • Daniel Fass' Life Saved!

    Using radiation practices brought on by the Curies' Research, Daniel Fass was able to survive Non-Hodgekin's Lymphoma.