Marie Curie
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- 2. The nominating committee initially objected to including a woman as a Nobel ___________, but Pierre Curie insisted that the original research was his wife's
- 7. He also designed several instruments for measuring ___________ fields and electricity
- 8. Marie Curie was a physicist and ______ and a pioneer in the study of radiation.
- 9. Curie negotiated with the ________ Institute to build a radioactivity research lab.
- 11. That research project put her in touch with ______ Curie, who was also an accomplished researcher
- 13. Curie continued to test more uranium __________.
- 15. By the end of that year, they had isolated a second _________ element, which they called radium, derived from "radius," the Latin word for rays
- 17. Marie Curie often worked late into the night stirring huge cauldrons with an iron rod nearly as _____ as she was.
- 18. But in 1995, their remains were moved and interred in the ____________ in Paris alongside France's greatest citizens
- 19. According to Goldsmith, Curie coated one of two metal plates with a thin layer of ________ salts
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- 1. When Curie registered at the Sorbonne in Paris, she signed her name as "_____" to seem more French
- 3. In recognition of her talents, she was awarded the _____________ Scholarship for Polish students studying abroad
- 4. Curie's mother succumbed to ____________ in 1878
- 5. She worked extensively with _______ throughout her lifetime, characterizing its various properties and investigating its therapeutic potential.
- 6. In 1911, Marie was awarded a second Nobel Prize in ____________ for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium
- 10. The youngest of five children, she had _______ older sisters and a brother.
- 12. Curie and her older sister, Bronya, both wished to pursue a higher __________, but the University of Warsaw did not accept women
- 14. Curie continued studying on her own and eventually set off for ______ in November 1891
- 16. Curie stated that measuring radioactivity would allow for the ____________ of new elements