Little Book Lover: Marie Curie

Author: Ren Cai
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Marie Curie was a diligent reader in her childhood and later dedicated herself to science. Under adverse health conditions, she discovered the new radioactive elements polonium and radium, making significant contributions to humanity. Marie Curie (Maria Sk?odowska) (1867-1934) was a world-famous physicist and chemist, the founder of modern atomic physics, and discovered two natural radioactive new elements, polonium and radium. Together with her husband Pierre Curie, she discovered the radioactive element radium, laying the foundation for cancer treatment in medicine. She was a renowned scientist respected by people all over the world.
Marie Curie grew up during the period of Polish national subjugation, facing political oppression and economic poverty. After graduating from high school, she worked as a private tutor for a few years and saved some money before studying in Paris. Upon arriving in Paris, she lived frugally and studied diligently, earning two master's degrees in physics and mathematics. While preparing for her doctoral exams, she chose the uranium rays discovered by Becquerel as her thesis topic. In her research, she found that radium and several other elements also emit rays, confirming that radioactivity is a property of atoms.
Together with her husband, she spent several years refining pure radium and determining its atomic weight. After her husband's death, she continued his lectures, led his laboratory, established the measurement standards for radium, and wrote numerous scientific papers and works. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, making significant contributions to science.