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    Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who lived in France and became the most famous female scientist of all time. She discovered the elements polonium and radium with her husband Pierre Curie. Together, they received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radioactivity. After Pierre's death, Marie became the first woman to receive a second Nobel Prize, winning the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her work made X-rays possible and she helped with mobile X-ray units during World War 1, but was later found to have leukemia from exposure to radiation in her scientific work.

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    Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who lived in France and became the most famous female scientist of all time. She discovered the elements polonium and radium with her husband Pierre Curie. Together, they received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radioactivity. After Pierre's death, Marie became the first woman to receive a second Nobel Prize, winning the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her work made X-rays possible and she helped with mobile X-ray units during World War 1, but was later found to have leukemia from exposure to radiation in her scientific work.

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    Marie Curie

    Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who worked in France. As


    a woman, it was difficult for her to get the education she
    wanted, but she became the most famous female scientist of
    all time.

    Early life
    She was born Maria Skoldowska, in Warsaw, on November
    7, 1867. She was a very bright child, but at that time,
    (1)  b  . In 1891, she went to Paris to study physics at the
    Sorbonne University. She met Pierre Curie there, a Professor
    of Physics. (2)   .

    Nobel success
    Pierre and Marie worked together on the new science of
    ‘radioactivity’ (a word which Marie invented). Between 1898
    and 1902, (3)    , polonium and radium. They received
    the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. At first, the prize was
    for Pierre only, but he asked that Marie receive it, too. Pierre
    gave their presentation when they received the prize in
    Sweden – (4)    .

    Another prize
    Pierre died in a road accident in April 1906. One month
    later, Marie became the first woman to teach at the
    Sorbonne. After five years of teaching and doing research,
    she received a second Nobel Prize, for Chemistry, in 1911.
    Marie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, (5)    .

    Final years
    Curie’s work made the use of X-rays possible, and during
    the First World War, (6)    . A few years later, Marie
    began to have problems with her health. Then, the doctors
    discovered that she had leukaemia. It was from all the
    radioactivity she received in her work, but (7)    . Finally,
    she died on July 4, 1934.

    “There is nothing to fear in life. That’s the only thing you


    need to understand.” Marie Curie
    D000918

    Headway 5th edition Elementary • Student’s Book • Unit 7, p.78 © Oxford University Press 2019 1

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