Google Doodles for Marie Curie

Google has another one of their 'classic' Doodles up today. The Doodle is for Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist known for her work with radioactivity. She was born on the 7th of November, 1867 in Warsaw, in Russian Poland. At the age of 24, she went to Paris to study. In 1893, she was awarded a degree in physics and while she was working, in 1894 she received a degree in mathematics. That same year, she met her husband, Pierre Curie and they had a mutual interest in magnetism that drew them together. She discovered that radiation does not come from interaction between molecules, but from atoms themselves. In 1898, the Curies had published a paper together announcing the existence of a new element, polonium. In the same year, they announced the existence another element, radium, which was named after its intense radioactivity. Radioactivity, too, was a word they coined together. Marie Curie passed away in the year 1934 from aplastic anemia, which she contracted from radiation exposure.

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