College Presentation Dec 2012

1. Marie Sklodowska Curie
7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934
• French-Polish physicist and chemist
• Famous for pioneering research on radioactivity.
• The first woman to win Nobel Prize.
• The only person to win in multiple sciences.
• First female professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne).

3. • In 1891 Marie moved to Paris
and attended the Sorbonne.
• In 1895 she met and married
Pierre Curie, a physics
professor at the University of
Paris.
• They began to further their
research on newly discovered
uranium and it’s invisible
radiations.
• They were able to find other
substances found in radiation
and isolated them
individually. As a result they
discovered the elements
polonium and radium.

4. • In 1903 Marie was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Physics
along with her husband
Pierre and Henri Becquerel.
• In 1911 Marie was awarded
a second Nobel Prize for her
work in Chemistry.
• Marie took her husbands
physic’s professor position as
well as becoming head of
the Physics Laboratory at the
Sorbonne in Paris, becoming
the first woman to do so.

5. • As a result of her work, she
developed x-ray machines
which help soldiers in the
second world war.
• Sadly Marie died in 1934 due
to pernicious anaemia
developed from extensive
exposure to radiation.