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  2. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee, [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  3. Curie temperature - Wikipedia

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    The Curie–Weiss law is a simple model derived from a mean-field approximation, this means it works well for the materials temperature, T, much greater than their corresponding Curie temperature, T C, i.e. T ≫ T C; however fails to describe the magnetic susceptibility, χ, in the immediate vicinity of the Curie point because of local ...

  4. Women in science - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie paved the way for scientists to study radioactive decay and discovered the elements radium and polonium. [3] Working as a physicist and chemist , she conducted pioneering research on radioactive decay and was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics and became the first person to receive a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry .

  5. Discovery of nuclear fission - Wikipedia

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    Curie and Savitch detected a radioactive substance with a 3.5-hour half-life. [44] [38] [85] The Paris group proposed that it might be an isotope of thorium. Meitner asked Strassmann, who was now doing most of the chemistry work, to check. He detected no sign of thorium. Meitner wrote to Curie with their results, and suggested a quiet ...

  6. 35 Fascinating Facts About Women's History Month - AOL

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    9. Marie Curie was the first person (and only woman) to receive two Nobel prizes. Curie was a scientist whose research on radioactivity led her to discover two new elements. She also researched ...

  7. Polonium - Wikipedia

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    Polonium was discovered on July 18, 1898 by Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, when it was extracted from the uranium ore pitchblende [3] and identified solely by its strong radioactivity: it was the first element to be discovered in this way. [4] Polonium was named after Marie Skłodowska Curie's homeland of Poland.

  8. Curie's law - Wikipedia

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    C {\displaystyle C} is a material-specific Curie constant (K). Pierre Curie discovered this relation, now known as Curie's law, by fitting data from experiment. It only holds for high temperatures and weak magnetic fields. As the derivations below show, the magnetization saturates in the opposite limit of low temperatures and strong fields.

  9. Curie family - Wikipedia

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    Curie family. The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of distinguished scientists. Pierre Curie, his Polish-born wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie, their daughter, Irène, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, are its most prominent members. Five members of the family in total were awarded a Nobel Prize, with Marie ...