1、,THE AWESOME CURIE FAMILY,,The family tree,Marie Curie Pierre CurieFrederic Irene Joliot Curie Eve Curie,,Maria Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867. Her father was a teacher and a piano player and her mother was a professor of mathematics and physics. She was the youngest of five c
2、hildren. She had a brother and three elder sisters.When she was four years old one of her elder sisters taught her the alphabet, and Manya (as they called her) learned how to read. In fact, she could read better than Bronya who had taught her. When she graduated from high school she won a gold medal
3、 because of her talent and hardwork.,,At that time Poland was under the control of Russia ,girls were not permitted to attend college. Both Manya and Bronya wanted to go to Paris for futher study, but there was no money to send them away to college. So they made a deal that Manya worked as a governe
4、ss to make money to send Bronya to school,then when Bronya became a doctor,she could return the favour. 8 years later, Manya came to Paris to begin her studies. Manya changed her name to a French name, Marie. While studying At Sorbonne, she lived in a cold apartment and survived on very little food.
5、,,She held multiple degrees in various subjects like math, physics and chemistry . Four years later when she graduated she had the highest grades in the class and get a dual masters degree in physics and mathematics. Then she became the first woman instructor at Sorbonne and met anther lecturer Pier
6、re Curie. They got married in 1895. With the money a cousin gave her for a wedding present, Marie bought two bicycles, one for herself and one for Pierre. They pedaled through the French countryside on their honeymoon,,Reading Partner,,Honeymoon,,Pierre and Marie began experimenting together and dis
7、covered two new radioactive elements. She named one of them polonium to honor her native country Poland, and the other radium . They worked four years preparing a very small quantity of radium in order to prove there really was such an element. They had to work with tons of pitchblende uranium ore t
8、o accomplish this. Marie worked hard carrying very large jars of liquid during those years of experimenting. In 1903 Pierre and Marie along with Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in physics for their work and their discovery of radioactivity . The money they received made life a little easier
9、, and they also used some of it to help friends and family members.,,Laboratory,,Doing experiment,,Then the unthinkable happened; Pierre was killed when he stepped out in front of a wagon being pulled by horses in 1906. Marie was in shock. What would she do without him? She felt like only half a per
10、son with Pierre gone, but she was strong and able to continue their work. She started teaching his classes at Sorbonne. In 1911 she was again awarded the Nobel Prize for refining radium. She also became the first and the only person who got two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.,,After the First
11、World War ,Marie Curie made two trips to America to receive a gram of radium each time, first from President Warren Harding and eight years later from President Herbert Hoover. In 1923 the French government gave her a pension of 40,000 francs a year in recognition of her lifetime of work in France.
12、She became ill and died from all her years of exposure to radium in 1934. Today doctors identify the disease as leukemia.,,,The Curies had two daughters, Irene and Eve. They were good, loving parents. And their daughters were also excellent.Irene (1897-1956) became intensely absorbed in her parents
13、scientific research. W. W. I took her into military hospitals as a nurse. She also served as her mothers laboratory assistant at the Radium Institute in Paris starting in 1918, and in 1921 began publishing reports about her own work in physics. In 1926 she married another of her mothers assistants,
14、Frederic Joliot (1900-1958), and the couple agreed to use the name Joliot-Curie thenceforth.,,,Their radiological research led to frequent publications and pioneer work in the technology of atom smashers. In 1935 the couple received the third Nobel Prize awarded the Curie family.,,Eve Denise Curie (
15、1904- ) cultivated totally different interests from those of her parents and elder sister. A woman of lively wit and artistic talent, Eve Curie became a concert pianist. Her Paris debut was in 1925. After her sister married, she lived with her mother and wrote music criticism under a pen name. Her 1937 biography, Madame Curie, became a best-seller, and thereafter she wrote, lectured, and traveled widely.,,Thank You !,
