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First Principle: Never to let oneself be beaten down by persons or events.”

Marie Curie, Scientist Polish/French 1867-1934. First Principle: Never to let oneself be beaten down by persons or events.”. At age 26, Marie earned d egrees in Physics and Math. At age 28, Marie married fellow scientist Pierre Curie. The Curies had two daughters, Irene and Eve.

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First Principle: Never to let oneself be beaten down by persons or events.”

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  1. Marie Curie, Scientist Polish/French 1867-1934 First Principle: Never to let oneself be beaten down by persons or events.”

  2. At age 26, Marie earned degrees in Physics and Math.

  3. At age 28, Marie married fellow scientist Pierre Curie.

  4. The Curies had two daughters, Irene and Eve.

  5. In 1903, Marie and Pierre discovered two radioactive elements, which they named Radium and Polonium . Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work, and eight years later, Marie later won another Nobel Prize in chemistry.

  6. In 1906, Pierre was killed in a street accident. Marie continued his teaching position as professor of physics at the Sorbonne. She was 39 years old.

  7. During World War 1, Marie organized mobile x-ray units that used radioactive materials to soldiers in the field with shrapnel and fracture wounds.

  8. Here is Marie with some of her scientific colleagues– can you find Marie and Albert Einstein?

  9. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” 

  10. “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”

  11. Marie die in 1934 at age 67 of leukemia caused by her exposure to radium.

  12. “I am one of those who think that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”  “….When radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. [Scientific work] must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become, like the radium, a benefit for mankind. ”

  13. Marie Curie at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTRrZU-LKQ (10 min). Marie Curie Biography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmJsKuJws4 (2.17min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEV4KJBJvEg (3.04 min)

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