Essays on Marie Curie

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. Marie...

“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...

In a time when it is considered strange for a woman to have a life outside caring for her family, one inspiring lady is showing up all the men. Marie Curie was truly brilliant and persevering in her search for knowledge. Her drive to become...

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...

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...

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, originally named Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was born on November 7, 1897 in Warsaw, Poland, where she would be raised until moving to Paris for further education. Marie grew up living under the Russian control of Poland; and at just 11 years old, she...

Marie Curie, also known as Marie Skłodowska, was born in Warsaw, Poland. Marie was born into a family of teachers who had a strong belief in education which fueled her motivation and passion to study Physics. In hopes of pursuing her studies, Curie moved to...

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...

With a lifespan of only 66 years, Marie Curie became a pioneer woman in academia. Her research on radioactivity, that ironically caused her death, led her to become the first and only woman, not just win two Noble Prizes but in different branches of science....