Mother of Radium, Marie Curie - A Good Role Model for Chinese Children

Author: Yang Yi
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: To step into American history, one must step into the history of Washington. For Americans and people around the world, Washington is a figure of great legend. His strong sense of wilderness has inspired countless individuals. With firm steps, he blazed numerous new paths and wrote countless . He was the one who picked up a gun to launch the American Revolutionary War; he was the one elected as the President of the United States; he was also the President who lived in the wilderness. Marie Curie (1867-1934), originally named Maria Sk?odowska, was born into a family of a secondary school teacher in Warsaw, the Kingdom of Poland. She was exceptionally gifted from a young age, but due to financial difficulties, although she graduated from secondary school with outstanding results, she could not continue her education. She worked as a private tutor for seven years before entering the Sorbonne University in Paris (now the University of Paris) at the age of 24, where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics three years later. Throughout her life, she actively engaged in scientific research and humanitarian work, winning the Nobel Prize twice. Her greatest achievement was the discovery of the new radioactive elements polonium and radium, along with her husband Pierre Curie (1859-1906). In 1934, she passed away at the age of 67 due to leukemia.