https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09 By Eugenia and Leilani en-us 2021-12-14 21:08:05 UTC 2022-01-21 00:01:25 UTC hello@padlet.com 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1948088582 Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She was the youngest of 5. Her mother soon died, and her father couldn't support her, so she became a governess and continued to study and learn.]]> 2021-12-14 21:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1948088582 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1948090044 It was 1891 when her sister offered Marie the chance to go live with her in Paris. She accepted right away and was enrolled at Sorbonne University. It was there that she studied physics and math. She fell in love with both of those subjects and that became her career.]]> 2021-12-14 21:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1948090044 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950442405 Marie Curie and her husband became research workers, and they believed they had found a new element, but other scientists doubted her when she brought it up.]]> 2021-12-15 21:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950442405 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950450427 Marie and Pierre began to experiment with radioactive materials, and eventually found polonium. They soon realized, though, that there was a much more radioactive material in polonium.]]> 2021-12-15 21:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950450427 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950453969 In 1898, they found enough evidence to claim there was another element, radium, but they didn't exactly have it yet. It was a long process to get to radium, but they eventually found it. Unfortunately, it took a toll on them because they were working with radioactive material.]]> 2021-12-15 21:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950453969 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950458434 In Paris 1894, she also met the love of her life, Pierre Curie, a scientist. One year after they met, they were married. ]]> 2021-12-15 21:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950458434 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950463375 1898 was also the year that their first child, Irene, was born. In 1904, their second daughter, Eve, came into the world.]]> 2021-12-15 21:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950463375 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950466266 Sadly, in 1906, Pierre Curie was killed in an accident on the street. Marie was devastated, but continued to work. She succeeded her husband in his Chair as Professor at the Sorbonne.]]> 2021-12-15 21:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950466266 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950476759 She followed Pierre and became the head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne in 1903. That same year, Marie got her Doctor of Science Degree, and she got her first Nobel Prize for Physics.]]> 2021-12-15 21:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950476759 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950478239 After Pierre's death, she became the first Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences to be a woman, in 1906. In 1911, Marie earned a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And in 1914, she was appointed as the Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.]]> 2021-12-15 21:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1950478239 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952625323 During World War 1, Marie and her daughter, Irene, created a portable x-ray machine, to find broken bones for the soldiers in battle. She and Irene went around helping soldiers during the war, fixing their broken bones.]]> 2021-12-16 21:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952625323 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952627783 On July 4, 1934, Marie Curie died in France, at the age of 66. She died of from an illness due to her long years work with radioactive material.]]> 2021-12-16 21:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952627783 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952637403 1. How is this project topic relevant today?
A: This project topic is relevant today because Marie Curie's design for the mobile x-ray machine is still used to this day in 2021. Marie and Pierre Curie also discovered Polonium and Radium, two elements that are now part of the Periodic Table.
2. What did you know about your topic prior to the research project, and what new information have you learned during the research part of this assignment?
A: Eugenia: I knew absolutely nothing about Marie Curie, but she was the only women scientist on the list, so we decided to give it a shot. I learned that she discovered radium and polonium and created the first portable x-ray.
Leilani: I knew some things about Marie Curie from an achieve that I had done. I had known that Marie Curie developed the portable x-ray machine, and they had launched during World War 1. I had also known that she had died from the very thing she discovered, which was radium. I learned that she also discovered polonium, I had thought that she only discovered one element.
3. Semester 1 Reflection: How have you personally grown in science this year thus far?
A: Eugenia:  I have grown a lot, because in my elementary school, we did nothing for science. So coming into seventh grade science was a pretty big change for me. I learned a lot from atoms to physical and chemical changes. I've learned them and have been able to understand. Science has taught me a lot of things, things that I didn't think I'd learn in seventh grade. 
Leilani: I have also personally grown a lot. I had gone into seventh grade knowing nothing, but wanted to learn about science. There are things that I would never had thought I would learn about. For example, balancing equations. Balancing equations is something that I found I am pretty good at, since the steps you take are pure math, which is something that I love to do. I am so glad that I have learned many things in science, because now I can use my new found skills in my everyday life. ]]> 2021-12-16 21:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952637403 5140822 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952646700 https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/who/our-history/marie-curie-the-scientist

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/biographical/]]> 2021-12-16 21:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952646700 3916763 https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952663831 Thank you for reading our timeline about Marie Curie, and her life and work. :)]]> 2021-12-16 21:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3916763/ev3sbiyiy6086j09/wish/1952663831