Marie Curie

Where was Marie Curie born?

• Paris, France

• London, UK

• Warsaw, Poland

• Prague, Check Republic

One of her credits was that...

• she founded the Sorbonne University

• she discovered X-rays

• she discovered palladium

• she proved that women were equal to men

Marie was the only female student at the school of sciences in the Sorbonne.

• True

• False

Who discovered the phenomenon now known as radioactivity in 1896?

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• Pierre Curie

• Henry Becquerel

Marie Curie was investigating a uranium-rich mineral (pitchblende) and isolated a sample that was 400 as active as uranium, a new element, that she called...

• radium

• polonium

• francium

• rutherfordium

The element which was 900 more radioactive than uranium Marie called...

• polonium

• francium

• germanium

• radium

Marie became the first woman in France to gain a Doctor of Science degree.

• True

• False

Marie Curie won a Noble Prise...

• twice

• alone

• in two different scientific fields: Physics and Chemistry

• for developing mobile radiography units

Marie Curie took her husband's position as professor of general Physics at the Sorbonne because...

How many mobile X-ray units had Marie started by the end of WWI ?

• 1

• over 10

• over 200

• 0