Marie Curie, her contributions to medicine, awards and death
Biography
Maria Salomea Sklodwska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland and died on July 4, 1934 in Passy, France. In 1885 Marie Curie, educational authorities did not let her register in a higher education institution for the simple fact of being a woman, so that she entered the Warsaw Floating University, which was a clandestine institution, since she admitted women. At the end of 1891, he moved to Paris with his sister and brother -in -law, near the University of Paris, where he continued his studies of mathematics, physics and chemistry. He received his degree in Physics in 1893. In 1894 he began his career as a scientific one, by investigating magnetic properties of multiple properties of different steels that was commissioned by the Society for the promotion of the national industry, the same year where he met who would be his future husband, Pierre Curie,who was knowing him within his own laboratory, where they promoted a great friendship shared an enormous interest in science, which in a year later, in 1895 they married.
Contribution to medicine
Due to the investigations that Marie Curie had done about radioactivity, she decided to continue doing research about a particular element, the radio immersed himself in study. In this process, she noticed that when she exposed her skin to the radius, she produced a burn that quickly evolved wounded, so she informed, that this could be used to kill those malignant cells in cancer patients, making a great contribution to the field ofOncology, to what we know today as radiotherapy. Similarly in 1915, he made tubes that emitted radio emanations, known as radon blisters, these served to heal and cauterize wounds in the soldiers produced by war, which brought a great benefit for patients,since with this process the bleeding and subsequent infections of the wounds are avoided. All this initially directed the creation of the Radio Institute, where patients wounded in the war were treated through the “emanation service”, to later be appointed the Curie Institute in its honor, and currently attend to cancer patients. Likewise, during World War I, she, knowing how important X -rays were for doctors, at the time of identifying fractures or knowing the location of bullets in the body of the soldiers, and her daughter Irene, they set out to take theX -ray equipment to battlefields so that doctors could better serve the soldiers who had been injured in the war field. To this end, Marie Curie and her daughter, along with the help of the Women’s Union of France and the Red Cross, organized cars to attach the portable X -rays, so that they could be transferred to the battlefields of thesoldiers. Marie struggled so much to provide this help to doctors, which formed up to 200 stationary units with X -rays and 20 cars with portable X ray equipment, which were known as the "Petit Curie".
Awards and death
The scientist Marie Curie not only stood out for being a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, but was also the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive two Nobel Awards in two fields:
In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for having discovered the radioactive elements: Torio and Polonio.
Subsequently, in 1911 he received his second Nobel Prize in the specialty of Chemistry for his research and descriptions on an even more radioactive element than those previously discovered: the radio.
Throughout his biography, it is clear that Marie Curie’s investigations were crucial for the branches of physics, chemistry and partly, for the medical area, because the study about radioactivity of the radio contributed to the fight againstcancer. However, paradoxically, the limited knowledge that Curie had as soon as discovering the radius led to not having the appropriate measures to treat the new element;Making his own discovery, radiation, was the one who ended his life unleashing an aplastic anemia painting and finally dying on July 4, 1934.
conclusion
Marie Curie was one of the pioneers within that of many fields, giving an extraordinary revolution in several sciences of her time. He put the name of a woman high when, at that time, the educational and labor area was dominated by men, this silenced our mouths to announce that women can not only do the same as us, but they can evenget to do even better. Entering the area of science could give a transformation not only in the area of physics and chemistry, but even radically transform medicine, where we can make great emphasis on the fields of radiology and oncology, the What are scenic specialties is that any hospital should be available, therefore their discoveries allowed us crossing oceans and allowing us Patient, likewise, he allowed us to take a step later in the treatment of oncological conditions, which we are currently mite giving hopes where everything seems lost.
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