Vocabulary & Speaking 2
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Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in
Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was the youngest
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When her sister got married, she invited Manya to live
with them and study at the Sorbonne. It was then that she 3)
her name to Marie. Marie studied Physics and Maths and got her
Master's degree in both subjects. When she graduated from
university, she started research 4) magnetism. It was at that
time she met Pierre Curie, a young scientist. They 5) in love
immediately and got married. Marie moved to his house and they
both started examining uranium and other elements to decide
whether they were radioactive. It 6) them four years to
isolate the radioactive source which she named radium. For this,
they 7) a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. In 1906, her
husband died in an accident and Marie got the position they had
offered him at the Sorbonne.
In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 8)
World
War I, she designed the first mobile X-Ray machine and travelled
with it along the front lines).
Marie died in July, 1934 in Paris. She died 9) radiation
poisoning. She worked hard and proved that if a person keeps to
their goals, they will 10) For her, success came with the
two Nobel Prizes she received and the fact that she was the first
woman to ever get one. We all owes her our respect and admiration.
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