The cyclist who relies on the rear brake for general stopping can get by until an emergency arises, and, in a panic, he or she grabs the unfamiliar front brake as well as the rear, for extra stopping power.
View full size image. Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. She and her husband, Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. Together, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and she received another one, for Chemistry, in 1911.Her work with radioactive materials doomed her, however. She died of a blood disease in 1934.n 1911, after Pierreâs death, Marie was awarded a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium. Later years. Marie continued to do research in radioactivity.
The Story: Madame Marie Curie was the world s most famous woman scientist--and so she remains today. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and the French physicist Henri Becquerel, and later on her own, Curie pioneered the study of radioactivity (a word she coined). Marie Sklodowska, as she was called before marriage, was born in Warsaw in 1867.