The accomplishments Marie Curie has achieved throughout her lifetime are truly incredible. She has undoubtedly changed science forever with the help of her husband Pierre Curie and other fellow scientists. Her work with radioactivity has also helped with technology today, such as x-rays and methods to help with the treatment of cancer. Although she had to put up with the inconveniences of a miniature laboratory and the problem of sexual discrimination, Marie Curie defied the …
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…spirit led the way for the discovery of twenty-nine new radioactive isotopes. Her work has affected the lives of people everywhere through applications of radioactive principles in medicine, in communication and in industrial technologies. Today, The Radium Institutes in both Warsaw and Paris continue the work Marie and Pierre Curie began. The Curie Institutes stand as living memorials to their lives, which were filled with devotion to make new discoveries in the science world. (Nisson)