Archi Marrapu

Mrs. Barnes
Touch Museum
Project

Early Life
Born on
November 7, 1867
in Warsaw, Poland
Her mother died
of tuberculosis
when she was 11

Schoolin
g
Graduated high
school when she
was 15

 She married Pierre Curie in July

Thesis Work
She decided
that her thesis
for her
doctorate would
be on Henri
Becquerels
mysterious xrays that are

Work with
Uranium

Discovered that if you have

a certain amount of uranium,
then you get a certain
amount of ray intensity, no

Uranium
Continued
She discovered
that there was
something going
on inside the atom
that created the
rays, she named

Polonium
Pierre stopped
his work on
crystals to work
with her
She continued
her work, but
with a different

Polonium Cont.
In July 1898 they
extracted a new
element that was
even more
radioactive than
They called this
uranium
new substance
polonium in honor of

Radium
In January of
1899 another
new element
was discovered
that was over 1
million times
more radioactive
than uranium, it

Radium
Continued
Her major studies showed
that radium gave out light and
heat, as well as being able to
damage living flesh
In 1910, she isolated pure
radium metal

Properties of
Radium
Radium is
silver-white in
color
Today it is
used in small
amounts as a
cancer
treatment and

Pierres Death

Pierre Curie was killed

tragically by a horse-

Teaching
It was decided
that she should
take over Pierre
s teaching job at
the Sorbonne in
1906

This made
her the 1st
woman
professor at

Health
Problems
She believed
that working
with radium
was not a
danger to her
health,
however,
doctors today

Radon
She also
invented tiny glass
tubes that were
filled with radon ( a
radioactive gas)

Awards
Her picture placed
on a stamp!
Nobel prize in physics in 1903
for her work with X-rays.
Nobel prize in chemistry in
1911 for her work with radium

Death

She eventually contracted

leukemia and died on July
14, 1934