BIOGRAPHY

OF THREE
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS:
-BALTAZAR MAGALLANES JEAN
-CANCHAMONI GARCÍA HEFFER
-MORALES SALIS BRUNO
-SIPAN LASTRA VALERIA
 Marie Salomea Skłodowska
Curie
(1867-1934)

She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw,

Poland and was the youngest of five children.

With the savings obtained working as

The death of her mother a governess, in 1891 she settled in
and older sister affected Paris and enrolled in the Faculty of
Marie but she still did not Natural Sciences and Mathematics of
abandon her idea the Sorbonne University, graduating
of studying. in 1893 in Physics and a year later in
Mathematics.
 Together with her husband
Pierre Curie, in the study of
radioactivity she was the
first woman to receive a
Nobel Prize and, to date, the
only person to have
received two Nobel Prizes in
different scientific
disciplines.

She discovered the elements Radium and Polonium,

initiating research into radioactivity, fundamental in
the study of the atomic structure of matter and with Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 in
applications in medicine and other disciplines. Passy, France
 Rosalind Franklin (1920-
1958)

She was born in

London, on July
25, 1920. From a
very early age,
she showed an
excellent In 1945 she obtained the title of Doctor in
aptitude and Chemistry-Physics and a year later she
attitude to study, moved to Paris to work at the Central
excelling in Laboratory of State Chemical Services,
various subjects, learning the management of X-ray
including science. diffraction techniques in crystals.
In a macho and difficult She pioneered the use of
environment, Rosalind obtained an X-ray diffraction and
X-ray diffraction photograph of a paved the way for the
DNA fiber, the famous “Photograph discovery of the three-
51”, which unmistakably revealed the dimensional structure of
helical structure of this polymer. DNA.

She died in London on April 16, 1958.

 Lise began studying at the University of
Vienna in 1901, just when the ban on

Lise Meitner (1878- women pursuing higher education was

lifted in Austria. She was brilliant in her
1968) studies during these years and in 1907 she
obtained a doctorate degree, being the
second woman to obtain one at the
University of Vienna.

In 1919 she obtained a

position as a professor
at the University of
Berlin, being the first
woman to do so. The
1930s were
fundamental for
nuclear physics and
Lise continued her
She was born in Vienna, November 7, 1878. research in this field.
 In 1942 she was offered to participate
in an international group to obtain the
atomic bomb (Manhattan Project),
which she refused. From this decade
of the 40s, international recognition
finally arrived with a multitude of
awards.

Lise Meitner continued her research for the rest of her life in Sweden in
the field of nuclear physics and radioactivity and remained active until
the 1960s, when she moved to Cambridge to be near her family.

He developed his Meitnerium, element 109 of the periodic table,

career in the 20th is named after this scientist, being the only
century, being very element in honor of a real woman.
important in the field
of nuclear physics and
She died in Cambridge, October 27, 1968.
radioactivity.