Marie Curie

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

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