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Curie (unit) Radiation corresponding to the radioactive decay of3.700 X 1010 atoms/s, 518 Curie, Irene, 517 Curie, Marie, 248,517 Curie, Pierre, 517 Current flow, 496... 

The E-pH diagram for 10 M Ra is presented in Figure 6.6. This concentration is used because such a solution of the most long-lived radium isotope Ra-226 (half-life 1620 years) would be decaying at the rate of about 3 billion atoms per minute per liter. Such a radioactivity could be worked with given special apparatus and precautions, but more concentrated solutions would require more demanding measures. The discovery of the element Ra was in 1898 by Marie Sklodowska Curie, Pierre Curie, and M. G. Bemont who isolated its salts from large quantities of pitchblende. 

CURIE, PIERRE (1859-1906) CURIE, MARIE (1867-1934). Pierre Cume was bom and raised in Paris. With his brother. Jacques, he studied crystals and in 1880 discovered piezoelectricity. Piezoelectricity is the production of an electric charge by pressure on certain crystals. Pierre became director at the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris where he worked for 22 years. His doctoral thesis on magnetism led lo his discovery, the Curie point, a temperature at which ferromagnetic substances lose their magnetism. 

CA 44, 9197 (1950) (Discovery of radium) 2)A.Kerschagl, "Mme Curie. Pierre Curie , Springer-Verlag, Vienna (1950), 80pp 3)A. Dorabialska, Wiadomosci Chem 8, 305-16 (1954) CA 49, 730 (1955) (Biographical sketch with portrait) 4)1.J.Curie, M.P.S. Curie , Panstwowe WydawnNauk, Warsaw... 

Curie, Pierre (1859 1906). French chemist, educated at the Sorbonne, conducted researches on piezoelectricity magnetism, and became professor of physics at the Sorbonne. Pierre is known expecially for his work with his wife, Maria, on radioactivity leading to their discovery of polonium radium for which they were awarded with A.H.Becquerel the 1003 Nobel... 

Becquerel continued his studies, but he had limited himself by using uranium as the only source of rays. That is why the Curies (Pierre and Marie) took a big step forward, but Becquerel could not. 

M. Curie, Pierre Curie, With the Autobiographical Notes of Marie Curie. Dover Publications, New York, 1963. 

In 1903 the Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three individuals Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Becquerel. Marie was the first woman ever to receive this prestigious award. In addition, she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911, making her the only person to receive two Nobel awards in science. Ironically, her cause of death in 1934 was of overexposure to radioactivity, the research for which she was so respected. 

As you study this chapter, the contributions of Mme. Curie, Pierre Curie, and the others of that time will become even more clear. Ironically, the field of medicine has been a major beneficiary of advances in nuclear and radiochemistry, despite the toxic properties of those same radioactive materials. 

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