Marie Curie Research Paper

Marie Curie was a globally renowned physicist and chemist that made impressive discoveries concerning radiation. Along with the groundbreaking discoveries related to chemistry and physics, she led a very interesting life.
Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland as Maria Skłodowska. Matt Gingo states that Curie’s childhood nickname was “Manya” and that her mother and father were both educators. She had four older siblings and money was scarce for Curie’s large family. According to Gingo, Curie’s oldest sister passed away due to typhus when Curie was only eight years old. Gingo comments that Curie’s mother died of tuberculosis at the age of forty-two. Gingo observes that Marie become an agnostic following these tragic events in …show more content…
Adrienne Rich addresses that in order to earn money to fund Bronia’s medical education in Paris, France Curie worked as a tutor. Bagley remarks that when Maria enrolled at the Sorbonne, in Paris, she began using “Marie” as a first name in order to appear as a native French woman. Curie quickly learned her high school education and self-study had not prepared her for the rigorous academic studies at the Sorbonne. Bagley comments that although Marie struggled financially, she earned her Master’s in Physics in July 1893 and she received a scholarship to stay and finish her degree in Mathematics in 1894. Bagley states that while Curie was researching the composition and magnetic properties of steel, she met a fellow brilliant scientist named Pierre Curie, the man who she would get her surname “Curie” through their marriage in 1895. Andy Boyd notes that Marie Curie and Pierre Curie had two daughters named Irene Curie, who was born in 1897 and died of leukemia at age fifty-eight and Eve Curie, who was born in 1904 and died in 2007 at the ripe age of a hundred and two years old. Margalit Fox observes that Marie Curie did not spend much time around her daughters since she spent much of her time in her laboratory conducting scientific …show more content…
Bagley observes that Pierre Curie allowed his wife to borrow his equipment, so she could assess the weak electrical currents she detected in air that had been barraged with uranium rays. According to Bagley, Marie Curie’s studies revealed that the effects of the rays remained the same even when the uranium ore was treated in different ways. Bagley affirms that she upheld Becquerel’s account that larger amounts of uranium ore produced more intense rays. Bagley confirms that after agreeing with other scientists’ claims, Curie stated a radical hypothesis; which was that the emission of these rays was a chemical characteristic of uranium. Bagley asserts that if Curie’s hypothesis were true, this would prove that the established perception of the atom as the smallest unit of matter was untrue. Bagley states that Marie then made the decision to experiment with all the known chemical ores in order to discover if any others would give off rays. Bagley notes that in the year 1898, came up with the term “radioactive”. Bagley claims that this word “radioactive” was used by Curie to characterize substances that had this property. Bagley addresses that Pierre Curie was heavily invested in his wife’s research to the extent of that he put his own scientific research to the side to

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