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Picture Story Know The Scientist: Fun Facts
Picture Story Know The Scientist: Fun Facts
story husband, Pierre Curie, discovered the
elements polonium and radium. She
was the rst woman to win a Nobel
Prize, the rst person and only woman
Come up with a witty to win twice and the rst person to win
in multiple sciences (Physics and
caption for this photo Chemistry).
Maria Sklodowska (Marie Curie’s
birth name) was born in 1867 in
Believe it or not? A girl observes Poland. Curie could not attend the
a partial solar eclipse on the maleonly University of Warsaw. She
Mahanakhon Skywalk Glass instead studied in Warsaw's "oating
Tray at the King Power university," a set of underground,
Mahanakhon building in informal classes held in secret. Marie
Bangkok, Thailand, Can you and her elder sister Bronisawa wanted
sum up this picture in a few to get an ocial degree from a foreign
words? Be creative! university. They struck a deal to support
each other nancially in their higher
studies. Marie started tutoring in
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Photo: AFP
Warsaw to help Bronislawa pursue
medicine in Paris. Though Marie joined when she became the rst woman to
her sister in Paris in 1891 to study at the receive the Nobel Prize in physics. She
University of Paris, she declined to take won the prestigious honour along with
her full support. Unable to support her husband and Henri Becquerel, for
herself, Marie went hungry most days. their work on radioactivity. Curie won
She earned her masters in physics in her second Nobel Prize in 1911 for her
What’s the 1893 and mathematics in1894.
When Marie took up a commissioned
discovery of radium and polonium.
Marie Curie died in 1934 of aplastic
mimic'. Answer:
'manytongued
in Latin means
polyglottos which
2. Mimus
1. Gustatory
Answers 3. Maroon, 4. Organ, 5. Pine. (Content provided by Amrita Bharati)
Answers: 1. Boil, 2. Litter,
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