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The Events of the Curie's Lives

By jpilk2
  • Pierre was born

  • Marie Curie was born

  • Marie Received a Mathematics Degree

  • Marie Received her Physics Degree

  • Pierre and Marie married

  • Daughter Irene was born

  • Together Discovered Radium

  • Together discovered Polonium

  • Marie drew the revolutionary conclusion that pitchblende contains a small amount of an unknown radiating element

  • Marie obtained her doctorate for a thesis on radioactive substances

  • Daughter Eve was born

  • Pierre run down by car and died

  • Marie became the first female proffessor at the university

  • Marie received her second nobel prize, this time for Chemistry

  • Period: to

    Marie Curie dedicated herself entirely to the development of the use of X rays in medicine

  • Marie died of Leukemia