Maria met pierre curie, another lecturer at the Paris School, and her later husband. The two of them often study radioactive materials together, mainly pitchblende, because the total radioactivity of this ore is stronger than that of the uranium it contains. 1898, the curies put forward a logical inference to this phenomenon: pitchblende must contain some unknown radioactive substance, which is far more radioactive than uranium. 12 On February 26th, Madame Curie announced their inference to the whole world, and in the following years, she continuously refined the radioactive materials in pitchblende. After unremitting efforts, they finally succeeded in separating radium chloride. Two new chemical elements were discovered: polonium and radium. Because of their great discovery and research on radioactivity, they and Henry Bekkerel 1903 won the Nobel Prize in physics, and Mary became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in history. 19 1 1 year. Mary won the Nobel Prize in chemistry again for successfully extracting radium. Surprisingly, after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Marie Curie did not apply for a patent for the method of extracting pure radium, but made it public, which promoted the development of radiochemistry at that time.
Madame Curie is also one of only two Nobel Prize winners in different fields in history. In World War I, he suggested using the principles of radiology to treat the wounded, thus promoting the development and application of radiology in the field of medical research. 192 1 year, she went to the United States to raise money for radiology research. Madame Curie died in France on 1934 due to excessive exposure to radioactive substances. Later, her eldest daughter, Elon Giorio Curie, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry with 1935. Eve Curie, the youngest daughter, wrote a book "Biography of Madame Curie" after her mother died. During the inflation in the 1990s, Madame Curie's head once appeared on stamps and currency in France and Poland. The chemical element curium (Cm, 96) was named in memory of the Curie couple.