In , during World War I, she created mobile x-ray units that could be driven to battlefield hospitals in France. After the war ended in , Curie returned to her lab to continue working with radioactive elements.
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Sign Up. When she was only 10, Curie lost her mother, Bronislawa, to tuberculosis. As a child, Curie took after her father. She had a bright and curious mind and excelled at school. But despite being a top student in her secondary school, Curie could not attend the male-only University of Warsaw. She instead continued her education in Warsaw's "floating university," a set of underground, informal classes held in secret.
Both Curie and her sister Bronya dreamed of going abroad to earn an official degree, but they lacked the financial resources to pay for more schooling. Undeterred, Curie worked out a deal with her sister: She would work to support Bronya while she was in school, and Bronya would return the favor after she completed her studies. For roughly five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess.
She used her spare time to study, reading about physics, chemistry and math. In , Curie finally made her way to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne. She threw herself into her studies, but this dedication had a personal cost: with little money, Curie survived on buttered bread and tea, and her health sometimes suffered because of her poor diet. Curie completed her master's degree in physics in and earned another degree in mathematics the following year. Marie married French physicist Pierre Curie on July 26, A romance developed between the brilliant pair, and they became a scientific dynamic duo who were completely devoted to one another.
At first, Marie and Pierre worked on separate projects. But after Marie discovered radioactivity, Pierre put aside his own work to help her with her research.
Marie suffered a tremendous loss in when Pierre was killed in Paris after accidentally stepping in front of a horse-drawn wagon.
Despite her tremendous grief, she took over his teaching post at the Sorbonne, becoming the institution's first female professor.
Curie was derided in the press for breaking up Langevin's marriage, the negativity in part stemming from rising xenophobia in France. Curie discovered radioactivity, and, together with her husband Pierre, the radioactive elements polonium and radium while working with the mineral pitchblende. She also championed the development of X-rays after Pierre's death.
Curie conducted her own experiments on uranium rays and discovered that they remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium. The rays, she theorized, came from the element's atomic structure. This revolutionary idea created the field of atomic physics.
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