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In 1894 Marie met Pierre while working in a research laboratory working on the magnetic properties of steel. They married the next year, and it was considered a perfect marriage because both Curies were passionate about science. Together they worked on discovering Polonium, which was named after Poland, and radium. Marie and Pierre had two daughters, Irene and Eve, but having children did not stop them from working on what they loved. Marie was able to be a both an excellent mother and scientist. Pierre's unexpected death in 1906 was a shock to Marie, but she continued in her study and in 1911 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the isolation of pure radium.
"During World War I Marie, helped by her daughter, organized a radiological service for the French army. She herself rode ambulances to the front, with X- ray equipment, bringing immediate help to the wounded, she and put together numerous radiological stations with trained personnel. Upon Curie's discoveries Radium Institute was founded in Paris, a universal center for nuclear physics and chemistry. In 1922 Marie was awarded a membership in the Academy of Medicine, and she committed her research to medical applications of radioactive substances." (Source …show more content…
Albert Einstein said about her: "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted". She worked with determination, and was awarded $50,000 in 1929 from U.S. President Hoover to buy radium for laboratory research in Warsaw. Marie was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until her death, and since 1922, she was a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Marie's work is recorded in many papers in scientific journals and she is the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (Investigations on radioactive substances) (1904), L'Isotopie et les Eléments Isotopes (Isotopy and isotopic elements) and the classic Traité de radioactivité (Treatise on radioactivity) (1910). (Source
"During World War I Marie, helped by her daughter, organized a radiological service for the French army. She herself rode ambulances to the front, with X- ray equipment, bringing immediate help to the wounded, she and put together numerous radiological stations with trained personnel. Upon Curie's discoveries Radium Institute was founded in Paris, a universal center for nuclear physics and chemistry. In 1922 Marie was awarded a membership in the Academy of Medicine, and she committed her research to medical applications of radioactive substances." (Source …show more content…
Albert Einstein said about her: "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted". She worked with determination, and was awarded $50,000 in 1929 from U.S. President Hoover to buy radium for laboratory research in Warsaw. Marie was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until her death, and since 1922, she was a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Marie's work is recorded in many papers in scientific journals and she is the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (Investigations on radioactive substances) (1904), L'Isotopie et les Eléments Isotopes (Isotopy and isotopic elements) and the classic Traité de radioactivité (Treatise on radioactivity) (1910). (Source