Marie CurieBiography.comMarie Curie was one of the most important heroes in life because she was able to progress with her studies and become the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Important events in my hero's life are when she got married to her husband and when they won the Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements that are radioactive. Marie Curie’s important people in her life are her husband, teachers that helped raised her, and her daughter. An important place in my heroes life is Warsaw Poland because that is her hometown. I won’t find her in society today because she has passed away. Even though she has passed my hero Marie Curie is kind and hardworking. She was able to be kind by loving her husband, and by working hard in her science experiments, even through tough conditions.
Marie Curie was a hero because she won the Nobel Prize and she inspired other women to explore in the science category. She is a hero because she was the first woman to win the nobel prize due to her hardworking in science. “Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. ” (NobelPrize.org) This quote shows how she got the nobel prize with her husband and her hard work in the science department.
Noble PrizeSkepticalscience.comMarie Curie is a hero because she was the first woman to get the nobel prize in the science category. This shows that she is heroic because she convinced other women that you don’t need to be a man to go out and make discovers in the scientific world. Another quote that shows how she won the nobel prize is, “A brilliant physicist and tireless researcher who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she was always exceedingly modest about her achievements and emphasized that they belonged to science, not to her.”(GaleGroup.com) This quote shows that she was a amazing scientist and that she was the first woman to win a nobel prize award. This shows another one of her heroic traits humbleness because she says, “her achievements belong to science and not to her.” (GaleGroup.com). Both of these quotes show how Marie Curie is a hero because she inspired other women to discover things and not just men.
Marie Curie was an inspiration to the world because she was able to work hard even in the hardest conditions. She was able to complete her research even though she was not in a good environment for science. Marie Curie is a hero because she was able to work and complete her research in hard conditions. “Her early researches, together with her husband, were often performed under difficult conditions, laboratory arrangements were poor and both had to undertake much teaching to earn a livelihood.” (NobelPrize.org) This quote shows how even though she was in difficult conditions she still persevere and worked through it. It also shows how she was a very hard worker in even in tough times. This shows one of many achievements, finding two new elements in the periodic table. Another quote that that shows she is a hard worker is, “During the next four years the Curies, working in a leaky wooden shed, processed a ton of pitchblende, laboriously isolating from it a fraction of a gram of radium.” (Ebscohost.com) This quote shows that her husband and her were working really hard even though they are in a bad environment a terrible she lived in. Finally this quote shows how much they care for each other in the conditions that they are in. Both of these quotes show one of many Marie Curie's traits, hard working but through her hard work she was an inspiration to a lot of people in the world.
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