Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge, a European co-production by Marie Noëlle starring Karolina Gruszka. Around 1886, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated experimentally the existence of radio waves. It is said that Hertz only smiled incredulously when anyone predicted that his waves would one day be sent round the earth. Hertz died in 1894 at the early age of 37. In September 1895, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal over a distance of 1.5 km. In 1901 he spanned the Atlantic. Hertz did not live long enough to experience the far-reaching positive effects of his great discovery, nor of course did he have to see it abused in bad television programs. It is hard to predict the consequences of new discoveries in physics. This book is full of creative and play-based activities to help children understand and come to terms with different emotions including shame, anger and jealousy. Curie, Marie, Pierre Curie and Autobiographical Notes, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1923. Subsequently Marie Curie refused to authorize publication of her Autobiographical Notes in any other country. Marie regularly refused all those who wanted to interview her. However, a prominent American female journalist, Marie Maloney, known as Missy, who for a long time had admired Marie, managed to meet her. This meeting became of great importance to them both. Marie told Missy that researchers in the USA had some 50 grams of radium at their disposal. “And in France, then?” asked Missy. “My laboratory has scarcely more than one gram,” was Marie’s answer. “But you ought to have all the resources in the world to continue with your research. Someone must see to that,” Missy said. “But who?” was Marie’s reply in a resigned tone. “The women of America,” promised Missy.

She used an innovative technique to investigate samples. Fifteen years earlier, her husband and his brother had developed a version of the electrometer, a sensitive device for measuring electric charge. [30] Using her husband's electrometer, she discovered that uranium rays caused the air around a sample to conduct electricity. Using this technique, her first result was the finding that the activity of the uranium compounds depended only on the quantity of uranium present. [30] She hypothesized that the radiation was not the outcome of some interaction of molecules but must come from the atom itself. [30] This hypothesis was an important step in disproving the assumption that atoms were indivisible. [30] [31] On 26 July 1895, they were married in Sceaux; [29] neither wanted a religious service. [14] [27] Curie's dark blue outfit, worn instead of a bridal gown, would serve her for many years as a laboratory outfit. [27] They shared two pastimes: long bicycle trips and journeys abroad, which brought them even closer. In Pierre, Marie had found a new love, a partner, and a scientific collaborator on whom she could depend. [17] New elements Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory, c. 1904 Bensuade-Vincent, Bernadette, Marie Curie, femme de science et de légende, Reveu du Palais de la découverte, Vol. 16. n ° 157 avril 1988, 15-30. She was acutely aware of the importance of promptly publishing her discoveries and thus establishing her priority. Had not Becquerel, two years earlier, presented his discovery to the Académie des Sciences the day after he made it, credit for the discovery of radioactivity (and even a Nobel Prize), would instead have gone to Silvanus Thompson. Curie chose the same rapid means of publication. Her paper, giving a brief and simple account of her work, was presented for her to the Académie on 12 April 1898 by her former professor, Gabriel Lippmann. [36] Even so, just as Thompson had been beaten by Becquerel, so Curie was beaten in the race to tell of her discovery that thorium gives off rays in the same way as uranium; two months earlier, Gerhard Carl Schmidt had published his own finding in Berlin. [37]

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While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames, [8] [9] never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. [10] She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native country. [a] Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy ( Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anemia likely from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. [12] In addition to her Nobel Prizes, she received numerous other honours and tributes; in 1995 she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Paris Panthéon, [13] and Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie during the International Year of Chemistry. She is the subject of numerous biographical works.

A picture book for children aged three to seven. It is a guide for young children and their parents to explore death and bereavement together. It can help to start difficult conversations or explore the questions that may come up after someone dies.

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Never too young to know: death in children’s lives by Phyllis Silverman (1999) (Oxford University, Press Inc) a b "Marie Curie – Recognition and Disappointment (1903–1905) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011 . Retrieved 7 November 2011. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Estreicher, Tadeusz (1938). "Curie, Maria ze Skłodowskich". Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 4 (in Polish). p.111. a b c d e f g h i j k "Marie Curie – Research Breakthroughs (1807–1904)Part 2". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011 . Retrieved 7 November 2011.

Marie Sklodowska Curie", Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 4, Detroit, Gale, 2004, pp. 339–41. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 June 2013.Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died (Early Years) (2001) by Diana Crossley and Kate Sheppard (Hawthorn Press) Science, Technology and Society in the Time of Alfred Nobel. Proceedings of a Nobel Symposium. Edited by Carl Gustaf Bernhard, Elisabeth Crawford, Per Sörbom. Published for the Nobel Foundation by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982. The physical and societal aspects of the Curies' work contributed to shaping the world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. [82] Cornell University professor L. Pearce Williams observes: