Today, November 7th, 2017, marks the 150th anniversary of one of the greats in the history of Physics and Chemistry, the birthday of Marie Sk\u0142odowska, born this day in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland (then a part of the Russian Empire during the partition of Poland).<\/p>\n
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Initially, she studied clandestinely in Warsaw and later moved to Paris, eventually getting her higher degrees there, meeting and marrying her husband, Pierre Curie, and later sharing the 1903 Nobel prize in physics with him and Henri\u00a0 Becquerel.<\/p>\n
She was the\u00a0first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to\u00a0win the Nobel prize twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of\u00a0five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the\u00a0University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the\u00a0Panth\u00e9on\u00a0in Paris.<\/p>\n
Among her achievements:<\/p>\n
Though she became a French Citizen (remember, Poland as a country did not exist during this time), the retained her Polish identity, taught her daughters the Polish language, and\u00a0 took them on visits to Poland. Perhaps this is why she named the first chemical element she discovered (1898) Polonium–in honor of her native Poland.<\/p>\n
Marie Curie (often known as Madame Curie) died in 1934 due to her exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and exposure during her radiological work during World War I in field hospitals.<\/p>\n
As you may well surmise, she is highly honored and regarded across the whole world today, and especially so in her beloved native Poland.<\/p>\n
Read more here:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Curie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, November 7th, 2017, marks the 150th anniversary of one of the greats in the history of Physics and Chemistry, the birthday of Marie Sk\u0142odowska, born this day in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland (then a part of the Russian Empire … Continue reading