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El matrimonio Curie tuvo dos hijas, una de ellas también ganó un Nobel: Irène Joliot-Curie y su marido, Frédéric, ayudante de Marie Curie desde 1925, continuó sus estudios en el campo de la radiactividad y descubrió, en 1934, en colaboración con su marido, la existencia de la llamada radiactividad artificial, recibieron el Premio Nobel de Química en 1935 por la obtención de nuevos elementos radiactivos.
Marie Curie (née Marie Sklodowska) was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw (Poland), daughter of a professor of physics. In 1891 left for Paris, where she changed her name to Marie. In 1891 he enrolled in the course of science from the University of Paris Sorbonne. After two years, completed her studies in physics with a number of her class. In 1894 she met Pierre Curie. In this moment, the two worked in the field of magnetism. For 35 years, Pierre Curie was a bright hope for French physics. Fell in love right away from that fine and almost austere Polish 27-year-old who shared his faith in science altruistic. After that he proposes marriage Pierre Curie and convinces to live in Paris, celebrating the July 26, 1895, her wedding with an extreme simplicity: no party or alliance, nor white dress. The bride wears a suit that day ordinary blue and then with her boyfriend, ride a bicycle to start the honeymoon on the roads of France. Marie Curie was interested in the recent discoveries of new types of radiation. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895, and in 1896 Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium invisible rays emitted similar. For all this she began to study radiation from the uranium and using piezoelectric technology invented by Pierre, carefully measured radiation in pechblenda, a mineral that contains uranium. When she saw that radiation from the ore were more intense than those of the uranium itself, she realized she had to be unknown elements, even more radioactive uranium. Marie Curie was the first to use the word " radioactive " to describe the elements that emit radiation when they break down their nuclei. Her husband finished her work on magnetism to join the investigation of his wife and marriage in 1898 announced the discovery of two new elements: polonium (Marie gave him that name in honor of their country of birth) and the radio. During the following four years of marriage, working in very precarious conditions, tried a ton of pechblenda, which isolated a fraction of an ounce of radio. In 1903 they awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactive elements, which they shared with Becquerel. However, for them, this glory is a " disaster ", both very reserved, devoured by the same passion for research, are to be removed from her and seeing her untimely laboratory assaulted by people, their modest pavilion invaded by Parisian journalists and photographers. At tatting they weigh, it adds an increasingly voluminous mail from that address on Sunday. Marie Curie became the first woman to receive this award. In 1904 Pierre Curie was appointed professor of physics at the University of Paris in 1905 and a member of the French Academy. These charges were not normally occupied by women, and Marie did not have the same recognition. Pierre died while crossing the street Dauphine, run over by a car of the horses on April 19, 1906. From that moment, Marie took up their classes (being the first woman to teach there) and continued their own investigations. In 1911, Marie stars in a scandal when it establishes a relationship with the scholar Paul Langevin, who is married. Part of the press is launched against the " thief of husbands " " the foreign. " That same year awarded a second Nobel, the Chemistry, for his research on the radio and its compounds. She was named director of the Institute of Radio Paris in 1914 and founded the Institut Curie. Marie Curie suffered a pernicious anemia caused by long exposure to radiation. She died on July 4 1934 in the Haute Savoie.
The couple had two daughters Curie, one of them also won a Nobel: Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic, assistant to Marie Curie since 1925, she continued her studies in the field of radioactivity and discovered in 1934 in collaboration with her husband, the existence of the so-called artificial radioactivity, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 for the acquisition of new radioactive elements.
The couple had two daughters Curie, one of them also won a Nobel: Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic, assistant to Marie Curie since 1925, she continued her studies in the field of radioactivity and discovered in 1934 in collaboration with her husband, the existence of the so-called artificial radioactivity, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 for the acquisition of new radioactive elements.