Marie Curie
Marie Curie
| Part of | Pierre and Marie Curie  |
|---|---|
| Ein sex anaa gender | female |
| Ein country of citizenship | France, Russian Empire, Second Polish Republic |
| Name in native language | Marie Curie, Maria Skłodowska-Curie |
| Birth name | Marya Salomea Skłodowska |
| Name wey dem give am | Marie, Maria, Salomea |
| Family name | Curie, Skłodowska-Curie, Skłodowska |
| IPA transcription | ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska |
| Ein date of birth | 7 November 1867 |
| Place dem born am | Warsaw |
| Date wey edie | 4 July 1934 |
| Place wey edie | Sancellemoz |
| Manner of death | natural causes |
| Cause of death | aplastic anemia |
| Place wey dem bury am | Panthéon |
| Ein poppie | Władysław Skłodowski |
| Mummie | Bronisława Skłodowska |
| Sibling | Bronisława Dłuska, Józef Skłodowski, Helena Skłodowska-Szaley |
| Spouse | Pierre Curie |
| Kiddie | Irène Joliot-Curie, Ève Curie |
| Family | House of Skłodowski |
| Native language | Polish |
| Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign | Russian, Polish, French, German, English |
| Writing language | French, Polish |
| Ein occupation | physicist, chemist, university teacher |
| Ein field of work | radioactivity, Chemistry, physics, radium, polonium |
| Employer | University of Paris, Sorbonne, Curie Institute |
| Position ehold | professor |
| Academic degree | licentiate, doctorate |
| Academic thesis | Research on Radioactive Substances |
| Doctoral advisor | Gabriel Lippmann |
| Student | Ellen Gleditsch, Irène Joliot-Curie |
| Residence | Warsaw, Paris |
| Ethnic group | Poles |
| Religion anaa worldview | agnosticism |
| Handedness | left-handedness |
| Participant insyd | 1st Solvay Conference on Physics, 5th Solvay Conference on Physics, 3rd Solvay Conference on Physics |
| Notable work | Treatise on Radioactivity |
| Dey archive for | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Significant event | funeral |
| Dem nominate for | Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Present in work | Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge |
| Described at URL | https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curie/romleg.htm, http://www.digiporta.net/index.php?id=826393978 |
| Coat of arms | Dołęga |
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), dem know am simply as Marie Curie, na she be a Polish den naturalised-French physicist den chemist wey conduct pioneering research for radioactivity.
Life den career
[edit | edit source]Early years
[edit | edit source]Na dem born Maria Skłodowska insyd Warsaw, insyd Congress Poland insyd de Russian Empire, for 7 November 1867, de fifth den youngest kiddie of well-known teachers[1] Bronisława, née Boguska, den Władysław Skłodowski.[2] Na de elder siblings of Maria (dem nickname Mania) be Zofia (born 1862, dem nickname Zosia), Józef (born 1863, dem nickname Józio), Bronisława (born 1865, dem nickname Bronia) den Helena (born 1866, dem nickname Hela).[3][4]
Commemoration den cultural depictions
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As one of de most famous scientists insyd history, na Marie Curie cam turn an icon insyd de scientific world wey she receive tributes from across de globe, even insyd de realm of pop culture.[5] She sanso receive chaw honorary degrees from universities across de world.[6]
Na Marie Curie be de first woman make she win a Nobel Prize, de first person make she win two Nobel Prizes, de only woman make she win insyd two fields, den de only person make win insyd multiple sciences.[7] Awards den honours wey she receive include:
- Nobel Prize insyd Physics (1903, plus ein husby Pierre Curie den Henri Becquerel)
- Davy Medal (1903, plus Pierre)
- Matteucci Medal (1904, plus Pierre)
- Actonian Prize (1907)[8]
- Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
- Legion of Honour (1909, she reject am)[9]
- Nobel Prize insyd Chemistry (1911)
- Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1919)[10]
- Franklin Medal of de American Philosophical Society (1921)
- Order of the White Eagle (2018, posthumously)[11]
Entities wey na dem name after Marie Curie dey include:
- De curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity
- Na dem name de element plus atomic number 96 curium (symbol Cm).
- Dem sanso name three radioactive minerals after de Curies: curite, sklodowskite, den cuprosklodowskite.
- De Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship program of de European Union for young scientists wey dey wish make dem work insyd a foreign country[12]
- Insyd 2007, na dem rename a metro station insyd Paris after both of de Curies.
- De Polish research nuclear reactor Maria
- De 7000 Curie asteroid
- Marie Curie charity, insyd de United Kingdom[13]
- De IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, an international award dem establish by de Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers insyd 2008.[14]
- De Marie Curie Medal, an annual science award dem establish insyd 1996 wey ebe conferred by de Polish Chemical Society[15]
- De Marie Curie–Sklodowska Medal and Prize, an annual award wey be conferred by de London-based Institute of Physics for distinguished contributions to physics education[16]
- Maria Curie-Skłodowska University insyd Lublin, Poland[17]
- Pierre and Marie Curie University insyd Paris
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology insyd Poland
- École élémentaire Marie-Curie insyd London, Ontario, Canada; Curie Metropolitan High School insyd Chicago, United States; Marie Curie High School insyd Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich, Switzerland
- Rue Madame Curie insyd Beirut, Lebanon.
Dem devote chaw biographies to am, wey dey include:
- Ève Curie (Marie Curie's daughter), Madame Curie, 1938.
- Françoise Giroud, Marie Curie: A Life, 1987.
- Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A Life, 1996.
- Barbara Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie, 2005.
- Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout, 2011, dem adapt into de 2019 British film.
- Sobel, Dava (24 October 2024). The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-0-00-853691-6.
Na Marie Curie be de subject of a number of films:
- 1943: Madame Curie, a U.S. Oscar-nominated film by Mervyn LeRoy starring Greer Garson.
- 1997: Les Palmes de M. Schutz, a French film adapted from a play of de same title, wey be directed by Claude Pinoteau. Marie Curie be played by Isabelle Huppert.
- 2014: Marie Curie, une femme sur le front, a French-Belgian film, directed by Alain Brunard den starring Dominique Reymond.
- 2016: Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge, a European co-production by Marie Noëlle starring Karolina Gruszka.
- 2016: Super Science Friends, an American Internet animated series created by Brett Jubinville plus Hedy Gregor as Marie Curie.
- 2019: Radioactive, a British film by Marjane Satrapi starring Rosamund Pike.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Marie Curie Facts". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ↑ Estreicher, Tadeusz (1938). "Curie, Maria ze Skłodowskich". Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 4 (in Polish). p. 111.
- ↑ "Marie Curie – Polish Girlhood (1867–1891) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ↑ Nelson, Craig (2014). The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era. Simon & Schuster. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-4516-6045-6. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ↑ Borzendowski, Janice (2009). Sterling Biographies: Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-4027-5318-3. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ↑ "Marie Curie – The Radium Institute (1919–1934) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize Facts". Nobelprize.org. 22 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
- ↑ "Scientific Notes and News". Science. 25 (647): 839–840. 1907. Bibcode:1907Sci....25..839.. doi:10.1126/science.25.647.839. ISSN 0036-8075. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ↑ Opfell, Olga S. (1978). The Lady Laureates. Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize. London: Scarecrow Press. p. 161.
- ↑ Carreras Ezquerra, Miguel (21 December 2011). "Marie Curie, científica universal" [Marie Curie, Universal Scientist]. La Oca Loca (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ↑ "Ordery Orła Białego przyznane pośmiertnie 25 wybitnym Polakom". prezydent.pl (in Polish). 11 November 2018. Archived from the original on 16 October 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ↑ "Marie Curie Actions" (PDF). European Commission. 2012. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ↑ "Marie Curie". charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ↑ "IEEE Marie Skłodowska–Curie Award". IEEE. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ↑ Vera Koester (7 September 2019). "100 Years Polish Chemical Society". chemistryviews.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ↑ "Silver Subject Medals and Prizes". iop.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ↑ "Biography of Maria Curie–Skłodowska". umcs.pl. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
Read further
[edit | edit source]Nonfiction
[edit | edit source]- Curie, Eve (2001). Madame Curie: A Biography. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81038-1.
- Curie, Marie (1921). . Poughkeepsie: Vassar College.
- Dzienkiewicz, Marta (2017). Polish Pioneers: Book of Prominent Poles. Translated by Monod-Gayraud, Agnes. Illustrations: Rzezak, Joanna; Karski, Piotr. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry. ISBN 9788365341686. OCLC 1060750234.
- Giroud, Françoise (1986). Marie Curie: A Life. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes & Meier. ISBN 978-0-8419-0977-9. OCLC 12946269.
- Kaczorowska, Teresa (2011). Córka mazowieckich równin, czyli, Maria Skłodowska-Curie z Mazowsza [Daughter of the Mazovian Plains: Maria Skłodowska–Curie of Mazowsze] (in Polish). Związek Literatów Polskich, Oddział w Ciechanowie. ISBN 978-83-89408-36-5. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- Moskowitz, Clara (February 2025). "Marie Curie's Hidden Network: How she recruited a generation of women scientists". Scientific American. Vol. 332, no. 2. pp. 78–79. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican022025-3K76AqOE4WSO46n3VMzSTu.
- Opfell, Olga S. (1978). The Lady Laureates : Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize. Metuchen, N.J.& London: Scarecrow Press. pp. 147–164. ISBN 978-0-8108-1161-4.
- Pasachoff, Naomi (1996). Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509214-1.
- Quinn, Susan (1996). Marie Curie: A Life. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-201-88794-5.
- Redniss, Lauren (2010). Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-135132-7.
- Sobel, Dava (2024), The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, ISBN 978-0802163820, OCLC 1437997660[1][2][3]
- Wirten, Eva Hemmungs (2015). Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-23584-4. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
Fiction
[edit | edit source]- Olov Enquist, Per (2006). The Book about Blanche and Marie. New York: Overlook. ISBN 978-1-58567-668-2. A 2004 novel by Per Olov Enquist featuring Maria Skłodowska-Curie, neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, and his Salpêtrière patient "Blanche" (Marie Wittman). The English translation was published in 2006.
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- Works by Marie Curie at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Marie Curie at Open Library
- Works by Marie Curie at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Marie Curie at the Internet Archive
- Newspaper clippings about Marie Curie in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Marie Curie on Nobelprize.org
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- ↑ "The Elements of Marie Curie". groveantlantic.com.
- ↑ Zernike, Kate (2024-10-10). "Book Review: 'The Elements of Marie Curie,' by Dava Sobel". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ↑ Spinney, Laura (2024-11-11). "The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – the great scientist who created her own school". The Guardian (in British English). ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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