they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were able to kill tumors. By the end of World War I, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world. She had made a conscious decision, however, not to patent methods of processing radium or its medical ...
Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie later went on to discover both polonium and radium, and won two Nobel prizes for her work on radioactive substances. Later, during the First World War, she set up a fleet of mobile X-ray units, popularly ...
In 1895 , Marie1a French physicist named pierre Curie. He was a young man2loved science3she did. In 1896, Madame Curie began to4on radioactive elements with her husband and in a little room5of them worked day and night, After two years of hard work , at last ,6December 26, 1898 ...