World History I History is full of firsts: the first person to sail around the world, the first man to walk on the moon, the first to successfully climb Mount Everest. Unfortunately, many of these firsts do not involve women. For centuries, men wrote and...
From the first woman professor to the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize Marie Curie was able to change the way women were viewed in the science community forever, and was able to be a role model for thousands of women in many years...
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas” – Marie Curie. Marie Curie had to do get through lots of hardships to get where she was at. Because of this, she became successful. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize...
Introduction As one of history’s most notable women, Marie Curie contributed much to science and to the world, despite the hardships she faced all throughout her life. Her discoveries, polonium and radium, and the work she did with radioactivity laid the foundation for science today....
Introduction With a lifespan of only 66 years, Marie Curie became a pioneering woman in academia. Her research on radioactivity, which ironically caused her death, led her to become the first and only woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different branches of science. As...
Triumphs, at times, are tragically neglected in history due to sexism. Marie Curie took one of the greatest medical tools to the battlefront of World War I, along with amazing scientific discoveries only to be overshadowed because of twentieth-century sexism. This history needs to be...
Marie Curie is the ‘Person of History’ because of her groundbreaking discoveries of radioisotopes radium and polonium. And her amazing work with Radioactivity. She made significant changes to the world and especially in the medical side. There are many examples of this existing at her...
Marie Curie was a very important person in science and changed science forever by being a woman. Not only did she receive a doctorate degree she also discovered two new elements: radium and polonium. She went on to receive Nobel prizes in 1903 in the...
