Marie and Pierre Curie in the Pantheon
N 48° 50.781 E 002° 20.709
31U E 451955 N 5410582
Originally buried in the cemetary in Sceaux, in 1995, in honor of their work, the remains of both were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris. Marie is the first and only woman buried there.
Waymark Code: WM370E
Location: France
Date Posted: 02/20/2008
Views: 118
Marie Curie (born Maria Sklodowska, also known as Marie Curie-Sklodowska; November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate (and still the only one in two different sciences) and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
Madame Curie named the first new chemical element that she discovered (1898) "polonium" for her native country.
At the University of Paris, also, she met and married Pierre Curie. At the time, Pierre Curie was an instructor in the School of Physics and Chemistry, the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI). Sklodowska was a student at the University of Paris, and had begun her scientific career in Paris with an investigation of the magnetic properties of various steels; it was their mutual interest in magnetism that drew Sklodowska and Curie together.
Eventually they studied radioactive materials, particularly pitchblende, the ore from which uranium was extracted. By April 1898, Sklodowska-Curie deduced that pitchblende must contain traces of an unknown substance far more radioactive than uranium. In July 1898, Pierre and Marie together published an article announcing the existence of an element which they named polonium, in honor of her native Poland, then still partitioned among three empires. On December 26, 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they named radium for its intense radioactivity — a word that they coined.
Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859 – died April 19, 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity.
Pierre and one of his students made the first discovery of nuclear energy, by identifying the continuous emission of heat from radium particles. He also investigated the radiation emissions of radioactive substances, and through the use of magnetic fields was able to show that some of the emissions were positively charged, some were negative and some were neutral. These correspond to alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
(excerpts from wikipedia)
Description:
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Date of birth: 11/07/1867
Date of death: 07/04/1934
Area of notoriety: Science/Technology
Marker Type: Crypt (below ground)
Setting: Indoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: 10am - 6.15pm.
Fee required?: Yes
Web site: [Web Link]
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