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Marie Curie

I am a physicist and chemist. My science research on radiation discovered two new elements, polonium and radium, isolated radium, and earned two Nobel Prizes, in physics and in chemistry.

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The situation, the work, the outcome. Ranked by how much the work proves.

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I put X-ray units on the front lines in World War I

1914 — 1919
Situation
Wartime France: battlefield surgeons needed imaging near the front, and I combined X-ray technology, vehicles and generators into a working radiology service.
Action
During World War I, I developed mobile radiography units, the 'Little Curies', directed the Red Cross Radiology Service, and installed 20 mobile vehicles and 200 field units; over a million soldiers were treated with my X-ray units.
Outcome
I can turn laboratory science into field engineering at national scale, fast, when lives depend on it.
radiologyx-ray imagingengineering
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How I built a mobile radiography service from scratch

1914 — 1919

I learned radiology, anatomy and automotive mechanics quickly, procured X-ray equipment, vehicles and generators, assembled mobile units, and trained women as aides to run them.

radiologyx-ray imagingengineering
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I discovered polonium and radium, two new elements

1895 — 1911
Situation
A joint research programme with Pierre Curie in Paris, following Röntgen's 1895 X-rays and Becquerel's radiation, when the mechanism behind such rays was not understood.
Action
Working on the radiation Becquerel had found, I discovered two new elements, polonium and radium, isolated radium, and coined the word 'radioactivity' for the phenomenon our research described.
Outcome
Careful science research on an unexplained effect can yield new elements and a whole field with its own name.
radioactivitychemistryphysics
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How I made radon needles to sterilise infected tissue

1915 — 1915

In 1915 I produced hollow needles filled with 'radium emanation', the radioactive gas later identified as radon, to sterilise infected tissue, using radium from my own one-gram supply.

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