Student name Lauren

 Person whom you have selected Marie Curie J      

Why I chose this person?

I chose Marie Curie because she is an excellent role model. She was a great student and she had an amazing memory. She was the first women to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive to of them. She is a great inspiration                                                         

Why are they important to you and others?

She is important to others and me because seeing after what she accomplished makes others try to do more. Her achievements in school makes us try to do more.

Childhood (birth, parents, siblings, important events that impacted them as a child)

She had 4 sisters and 1 brother (Zosia, Bronya, Hela, and Joseph). Her name was first Manya until she changed it. Her Dad was a professor of physics and mathematics and her Mom was a principal of an all girl’s school. Her mother died of T.B and her sister, Zosia, died of typhus when Marie was 8. When Marie was 4, Bronya was reading to her parents trying hard to say words and talking slowly. Marie quickly grabbed it out of her hand and started reading without a mistake. In reading Marie just tuned out the whole world. When she graduated she got a gold medal, the highest award you can get.

 Adulthood (who influenced them, achievements and disappointments, important events such as marriage or having children)

Marie married Pierre Curie, a professor at her college. They worked together to find an element called uranium. Not long before this scientists found out they gave off unexplained rays (today we know these are atomic radiation rays). Marie continued to work with her husband and they found two elements which they named polium and radium. In 1903 the Curies won the Nobel Prize for their great work on physics. Marie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize! In 1906 Pierre was struck and killed by a horse drawn wagon. Marie again buried herself in work while raising her to young daughters, Irene and Eve. Marie continued to work with radium until she found a way to make it pure. This form of radium is used to treat cancer. For this Marie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911. Nobody ever won two before! Unfortunately, she died on July 4, 1934. L

 Contributions to the world (How did they impact the lives around them and how we live today)

Marie found out what uranium was and found a way to make radium pure, which is used to treat cancer and was in a lot of old products

How did learning about this person help you and make you feel?                  

Learning about Marie Curie has helped me a lot. She always believed she could do it. Before this I never heard of her, but now I realize what a great person she was and how she helped us.

Would you recommend learning about this person and why?

Yes! Her life story is amazing! She was good in school and nice to her family. She made me feel strong and like I could do anything a boy could do(which is totally true because we can do it in high heels!)   

Marie Curie was beautiful with wavy brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin

quotes

            A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.


After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.


All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.


Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.


I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.


I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.




I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.



Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.


Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.



One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.


There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.