How Did Marie Curie Change The World

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Everybody wants to do something that will change the world. Some people want to end wars by spreading peaceful messages of love. Others may want to make a less dramatic change by making areas of their community better. Scientist, allow their curiosity overtake themselves and their discoveries change the world. Luckily, that was the case for Marie Curie, a female scientist who made two game changing discoveries and allowed the world to see that women are also capable of succeeding in the sciences. Marie was a strong willed woman who was blessed enough to live in a highly academic environment whose discoveries lead her to winning very honorable prizes.
Marie Sklodowska was born on the seventh day of November in 1876 in a town called Warsaw in the Russian Empire, which is now known as Poland. Marie was the daughter of teachers who greatly encouraged her interest in furthering her education, especially in the field of science. At the age of 15, Marie graduated high school as class valedictorian. Driven by a love for scientific research, she and her older sister wished to attend …show more content…

Using an instrument invented by Pierre, Marie detected faint electrical currents in the air that had been bombarded with Uranium. This lead to two things: a conformation of Becquerel’s finding that the more Uranium there is the more rays it admitted, and her hypothesis that stated the rays emitted by the Uranium were caused by atomic properties. Her hypothesis was revolutionary because it suggested that the atom is made up of particles which would mean the atom was not the smallest thing in the world. Marie’s recent discoveries lead her to testing all known chemicals in order to see if they would emit the “Becquerel rays”. Radioactive was as term Marie coined to describe materials that gave off Becquerel

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