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Marie Curie

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was Marie Curie born?

a)

Paris, France

b)

London, UK

c)

Warsaw, Poland

d)

Prague, Check Republic

2.

One of her credits was that...

a)

she founded the Sorbonne University

b)

she discovered X-rays

c)

she discovered palladium

d)

she proved that women were equal to men

3.

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

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Who discovered the phenomenon now known as radioactivity in 1896?

a)

Wilhelm Roentgen

b)

Pierre Curie

c)

Henry Becquerel

5.

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...

a)

radium

b)

polonium

c)

francium

d)

rutherfordium

6.

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

a)

polonium

b)

francium

c)

germanium

d)

radium

7.

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

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Marie Curie won a Noble Prise...

a)

twice

b)

alone

c)

in two different scientific fields: Physics and Chemistry

d)

for developing mobile radiography units

9.

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

(a)  

10.

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

a)

1

b)

over 10

c)

over 200

d)

0

11.

Marie helped establish a radium Institute in Paris.

a)

True

b)

False