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| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["science","engineering","equality"],"appCategory":"science","appBody":"<p>Marie Curie</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Marie_Curie_c1920.jpg/330px-Marie_Curie_c1920.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>First woman to win a nobel prize and only woman to win it twice,</p>\n<p>did research over 100 years ago into radioactivity.</p>\n<p>She was a true pioneer.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p> Her achievements included the development of the theory of <em>radioactivity</em> (a term that she coined<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#cite_note-5\">[4]</a><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#cite_note-6\">[5]</a>), techniques for isolating radioactive <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope\" title=\"Isotope\">isotopes</a>, and the discovery of two elements, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium\" title=\"Polonium\">polonium</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium\" title=\"Radium\">radium</a>. Under her direction, the world's first studies into the treatment of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplasm\" title=\"Neoplasm\">neoplasms</a> were conducted using radioactive isotopes. She founded the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_Institute_(Paris)\" title=\"Curie Institute (Paris)\">Curie Institutes in Paris</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_Institute_(Warsaw)\" title=\"Curie Institute (Warsaw)\">in Warsaw</a>, which remain major centres of medical research today. During <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I\" title=\"World War I\">World War I</a>, she developed mobile radiography units to provide <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray\" title=\"X-ray\">X-ray</a> services to <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_hospital\" title=\"Field hospital\">field hospitals</a>. </p>\n<p> Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanatorium\" title=\"Sanatorium\">sanatorium</a> in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancellemoz\" title=\"Sancellemoz\">Sancellemoz</a> (<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute-Savoie\" title=\"Haute-Savoie\">Haute-Savoie</a>), France, of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplastic_anemia\" title=\"Aplastic anemia\">aplastic anemia</a> from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I\" title=\"World War I\">World War I</a>.<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#cite_note-12\">[10]</a> </p>\n<p>Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>She paid for her science and achievements with her life as well.</p>\n<p>If you are not aware of this remarkable woman I highly recommend reading the wiki article I linked if nothing else</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3t88m7h5","appParentAuthor":"gentmartin","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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