Blog 2 - Influential Woman From the Francophone World

  1. Marie Curie was a French physicist and chemist who was born in Poland in 1867 and died in France in 1934. She died from aplastic anemia due to radiation, since she researched radioactivity.

2. Marie Curie won many awards by herself and with others, including two Nobel prizes (the first woman to win), one in Physics and one in Chemistry. Her and her husband discovered 2 elements, polonium and radium. She also helped with the development of X-rays.

3. Marie Curie made many useful scientific discoveries like the ones mentioned in question two that impacted the science world and let others build off her research and discover more. She changed how people understood radioactivity and how to use it in things like medicine or even the atomic bomb.

4. Marie Curie is sort of similar to Esther Lederberg, who was an American microbiologist. She discovered things like the bacterial virus (special character) (lambda phage). Though Lederberg was not a physicist or chemist, she was still a woman in science who researched things that led to a better understanding of the world (specifically genetics).