Marie Curie Research Paper

Marie Curie How were the elements of the periodic table discovered? Who discovered them? These are questions that some people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table, polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive, it produces radiation, which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is, that radium, what Marie Curie discovered, killed her. Marie Curie’s family was based around science and education. Her father was a professor at a school where he taught math, physics, and was also the under inspector. In this school, Marie’s father taught the Russian way because the principal told him to, but he could teach in a way that made the subjects interesting if he was allowed to. Before she was born, Marie’s mother was a teacher and principal of a middle school, but she stopped teaching to take care of her family.
Because their health was weak, Marie and Pierre bicycled, and when they felt better, they went back to work even though they knew that the radium was hurting them. The reason that they kept working with the radium, was to answer Marie’s second question of “Why does it emit this energy?” Because of Marie’s commitment, this led to her death. `On July 4, 1934, Marie Curie died of a blood disease. This blood disease happened because she was around radium too much. It was called aplastic anemia. Although radium could heal diseases and people, it could also kill people, and that is what it did to Marie Curie.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes and she was the first woman to become a professor in France. She lived a widow for 28 years, and both she and her husband ,Pierre Curie, changed the world by discovering radium and changed the medical & scientific world