Memoir Historical Investigation for Radioactive
Memoir Historical Investigation for Radioactive by Austin Hanna Primary Source: This is a photograph of Marie.
This is a photograph of Marie, the Pierre’s wife, Mixing chemicals to make radium. I chose this photograph to show you what she did and what she looked like. I like this picture because she looks kind of like Shakespeare doing a play.
Secondary Source: This is an quote from a website called‘Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)’ by BBC
“The Curie's research was crucial in the development of x-rays in surgery. During World War One Curie helped to equip ambulances with x-ray equipment, which she herself drove to the front lines. The International Red Cross made her head of its radiological service and she held training courses for medical orderlies and doctors in the new techniques.� I was further interested into the article by the content of this quote as it shares who invented the x-ray. After reading the book, Which never said that she invented the x-ray.
Summary and Review: Radiation is a biography of Marie Curie, set in Warsaw and France just before and World War I. She studied physics and discovered Radium and Polonium. During the war, when Pierre was killed she was very depressed. She later died of radiation exposure. Works Cited Radiation By Lauren Redniss http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/curie_marie.shtml
Austin Hanna
Marie Curie: A life story
Ms.Cross LA 8 D 20/11/12 My name is Marie Curie; I was born in 1867 in the part of Poland that is under Russian control. I have radiation sickness I am lying in bed dying of sickness, but before I pass I must tell a story. In High School I received a gold medal, I loved Warsaw and wanted to study there but my family was to poor. My sister and I started tutoring students; we raised money for me to go to school. My sister moved to Paris but I stayed, when she moved tutoring got a lot harder. My other sister promised she would help me. One of my sisters invited me to come live with her in Paris, France I came and started studying math and physics at Sorbonne University. I changed my name from Manya to Marie. I had the best grades in class and graduated with a Doctorate in Physics. My apartment was terrible, it was terrifyingly cold and I didn’t have a lot of money to buy things like food. I was always cold and hungry but I made it through the school. Then I thought I should get married and settle down, so I did. I met Pierre in 1895; we got married and had two daughters. With the wedding money we received I bought bikes for us to go ride on the open, grassy, beautiful French Countryside for our honeymoon. After the honeymoon we started to work together, we discovered Radium and Polonium. It took us four years to make the Radium but it was worth it. We won the Nobel Prize. When we won the prize we were very excited, we celebrated by giving our Prize Money to friends and family that made it possible for us to accomplish this. Later on I came up with an Idea for a machine that detects metal in the human body, it’s called the x-ray. When I was working on it Pierre went outside and was killed instantly, he was trampled by horses. I was standing is shock, emotionless. I went into depression but that didn’t stop me, I finished the x-ray and received another Nobel Prize. Now I am lying in my bed, writing my life story about to join Pierre in the afterlife.