Labels:text | human face | man | clock | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Curie, Marie Marie Curie Marie Curie discovered radium, which for a long time was the only known treatment for cancer. With her husband Pierre, she researched the radiation emitted by uranium and coined the word "radioactivity." She used a technique devised by Pierre to measure radioactivity and for the results they jointly received the Nobel prize in 1903. Marie Curie established a series of firsts in science. The first woman to win the Nobel prize, in 1911 she became the first person to receive a second Nobel prize, this time for her discoveries of two new elements - radium and polonium. In 1906 she became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. During World War I she directed radiation services with a corps of women doctors, Marie Curie, Polish-French driving to the front lines with ambulances physicist, 1867-1934 carrying portable X-ray equipment. After the war, the creation of the Curie Foundation enabled her to develop medical uses of radium. Her health declined through exposure to radiation and in 1934 she died of leukemia. CHRONOLOGY
