MADAME CURIE
Science
Born: November 7, 1867
Warsaw, Poland
Died: July 4, 1934
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
French scientists Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie's research in isolating polonium and radium marked the beginning of a new era in the study of atomic structure and radioactivity. In 1903 the Curies shared the Nobel Prize for physics and after her husband's death, Marie was named to her husband's chair in physics at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she was once again awarded the Nobel prize and became the first person ever to receive a Nobel Prize for both physics and chemistry. She headed the Pasteur Institute and a laboratory of radioactivity at the University of Paris.
1. Marie Curie's research marked the beginning of a new era in the study of atomic structure and _____________.
2. She and her husband were awarded the Nobel Prize for _______ in 1903.
3. She recieved a seccond Nobel Prize for _________.
4. Even though she was born in Poland, most of her scientific work was done in ______.
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