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MARIE CURIE’S LASTING LEGACY A LIFE IN SCIENCE
Most people picture Marie Curie as a scientific legend in a textbook, but long before she became a famous scientist, her life looked a lot like that of many others of her time. The youngest of five children, she was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Early in life, Curie faced financial difficulties and the loss of her mother, but she was exceptionally bright and threw herself into her studies. Despite the limitations placed on women in 19th-century Poland, Curie pushed forward. She studied through underground classes, worked as a governess, and saved until she could leave for Paris and enroll at the Sorbonne. In Paris, she studied physics and mathematics and later met Pierre Curie, her research partner and future husband. The two of them began investigating strange rays coming from certain materials.
Curie eventually helped define the field by giving the phenomenon she was studying a name: radioactivity. Her research led to the discovery of radium and polonium, two highly radioactive elements that changed the scientific conversation at the time. That discovery expanded the periodic table and
laid the groundwork for the medical uses of radiation, especially cancer treatment.
In 1903, Curie and her husband were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work isolating the radioactive elements they discovered. Eight years later, she was awarded a second Nobel Prize on her own, this time in chemistry. That made her the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person in history to have won in two different scientific fields. Sadly, Curie’s work likely also led to her death. After years of radiation exposure, she died at age 66 of aplastic anemia, a blood disease caused by radiation damage to bone marrow. Even with that tragic ending, Curie’s impact is hard to overstate. Through her work, she helped open an entirely new field of science that continues to influence research and medicine today.
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