Labels:book | bulletin board | comic book | daily | monitor | person | sky | tribute album OCR: MARIE CURIE (1867 -1934) OLISH -BORN physicist Marie Curie and her French husband Pierre are famous for their work or radioactivity. They were inspired by the work of Fthe French physicist Henri Becquerel (1852 1908) Marie Curie was the first to use the term radioactive for substances that have considerable electromagnetic activity She also isolated two new radioactive elements, polonium and radium. After Pierre' death, she took over his job professor of physics at the University ofParis, the first woman tO teach there She continued her research. looking for medical uses for radioactivity. She was awarded the Nobel P rize for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911 ALSO STORY OLSO
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