In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today, Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person. Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an X-Ray machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie. Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie. Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based on discoveries made by Marie Curie. The list of discoveries made by Marie Curie goes on and on, not the least of which it was the discoveries of Marie Curie of nuclear fission that made the Atomic Bomb and other nuclear weapons possible. Yet except for a few academics and watchers of The Discovery Channel, the name of Marie Curie is largely unknown. Ask a hundred men on the street if they know who Marie Curie is or was, not more than one of them will have ever heard her. If you ask the same group if they have ever heard of Albert Einstein, all of them will have heard of him. Yet, Albert Einstein was only concerned with theoretical physics and his own theories. None of his discoveries have yet been proven or confirmed. None have been made into a machine like the common X-Ray Machine now seen in all major hospitals. Marie Curie suffered from a form of discrimination experienced by almost all women of academic accomplishment. Her discoveries were not taken seriously or were often credited to some man in her background. Always it was assumed that the real work was done by some man and that the woman was just a wall flower.
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Born in Paris on December 6, 1904, Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was graduated at Collège Sévigné a Bachelor of Science and later as Bachelor of Science. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize. At the age of 16, she accompanied her mother, Mme. Curie, on a grand tour of the United States. After the death of her mother, Mile. Curie lived in a small apartment in Auteuil collecting and classifying the papers, manuscripts and personal documents left by Mme. Curie. Having decided to write the biography of her famous mother, she went to Poland in the August of 1935 to obtain all possible material on the youth of Mme. Curie. She brought back to France a quantity of letters photographs and other papers and at once began the composition of this book which has been published simultaneously in the United States, England, France Italy and Spain. Madame Curie was instantly popular; in many countries including the United States it was a bestseller. In the U.S. it won the third annual National Book Award for Non-Fiction voted by the American Booksellers Association. She was married but had no children. After her husband died, she lived the last years of her life in New York City where she died on October 22, 2007 at age 102. Her mother Marie Curie was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw Poland. Among the first discoveries of Marie Skłodowska Curie was the discovery of the element Polonium, a chemical element with symbol Po and atomic number 84. It was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie, identified solely by its strong radioactivity: It was the first element to be so discovered. It was named after Marie Curie's homeland of Poland. Several other retroactive elements were discovered by her after the death of Pierre Curie. Named after her was the element Curium. This is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Cm and atomic number 96. She met Pierre Curie, married him and went on to her first achievements in science. A street accident killed Pierre and with her two children she carried her work forward alone. Because of her, the armament of medicine was to gain a new weapon. On 4 July 1934, she died at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy, Haute-Savoie, from aplastic anemia believed to have been contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation. Her work is now being carried on by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley California.
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