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WorksheetsMarie Curie
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 10mins
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...
(a)
How many mobile X-ray units had Marie started by the end of WWI ?
1
over 10
over 200
0
Marie helped establish a radium Institute in Paris.
True
False
