https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenplus2 On the International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate powerful and inspiring women as well as their achievements in History, Science, Arts, Sports, Education, Technology and so on. en-us 2018-03-09 19:07:32 UTC 2023-02-18 00:42:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png bianca_saburi https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenplus2/wish/240325600 She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In 1903, she shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with French physicist Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, for their work on radioactivity. Her name was initially left off the winners’ list but Pierre insisted she be included.
Becquerel inspired the Curies to investigate radioactivity after its discovery in 1896. They examined a mineral called pitchblende and eventually found two radioactive elements – radium and polonium. Curie named polonium after her home country, Poland.
In 1911, a few years after her husband’s death, she was awarded the Chemistry Prize – becoming the first person to win two Nobels.
She died in 1934 from leukaemia, believed to have been caused by exposure to radiation from her research.]]> 2018-03-09 19:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenplus2/wish/240325600