physics marie curie quiz

She measured radium's atomic weight at _______; very close to the current value of 226.

225.9

Gabriel Lippmann delivered the paper announcing the new discovery because neither of the Curies was a member of the ____________________.

Academy of Sciences

Rising above it all was the brand new _______, which would remain the world's tallest structure for nearly half a century

Eiffel Tower

At the laboratories of __________, scientists were conquering ______ that had plagued humanity for centuries.

Louis Pasteur; diseases

In the end, Marie did share in the Nobel Prize with ___________ and Henri Becquerel.

Pierre

___________ was a first-rate researcher but he had never bothered to complete his _________ and was content teaching at an ____________.

Pierre Curie; dissertation; industrial college

The first was named ______ after her occupied native country.

Polonium

___________ was a sign that the atom itself was unstable and it could _______ apart.

Radioactivity; break

After spectral analysis revealed the second new element, the Curies named it ___________.

Radium

Marie enrolled at Paris' preeminent university, the __________ where she could study under the leading lights of French science.

Sorbonne

In February of 1898, Marie made two startling discoveries. She found that the element ________ could also make air a better conductor.

Thorium

While the scientific world was excited about the recent discovery and possible uses of X-Rays, Henri Becquerel had discovered a different kind of ray given off by the element ________.

Uranium

Thanks to Marie Curie, scientists had a pressing new question to answer:___________________?

What's inside the atom?

It was Marie who had the flash of insight that perhaps some types of matter were changing from one kind to another, their _______ splitting apart and releasing _______.

atoms; energy

Using these instruments required extraordinary __________ and dexterity.

concentration

Pierre's proposal posed a ______ for Marie; she planned to get a first-rate ___________________ in Paris and then return to her beloved ____________ to teach and care for her aging father.

dilemma; scientific education; Poland

The Curies' discoveries inspired others around the world to pursue this daring theory. The idea that finally got pieced together was that the energy was in fact coming from the ______________ of these atoms themselves.

disintegration

In 1903, Marie Sklodowska Curie became the first female scientist ever awarded a ____________ in France.

doctorate

By 1897, Marie had set her sights on getting what no other woman had ever received in France: a ___________

doctorate in Physics

In the 1980s, Paris was like no other place on Earth; the city boasted such modern marvels as __________ and __________.

electric streetcars and telephones

Pierre and Marie designed an ingenious instrument to measure these subtle __________ effects.

electrical

Becquerel had discovered that his uranic rays had the mysterious power to charge the air around them allowing tiny amounts of ______ to leak across.

electricity

Very soon, the Curies began to suspect that there was another ________ in the pitchblende which was producing this enormous ___________.

element; radioactivity

Marie compiled data on uranium and then went on to test the other known ___________ to see if any of them could also _______ the air.

elements; electrify

Marie graduated ____ in her class and with Professor Lippmann's help received a grant to do research on __________.

first; magnetism

The second discovery was that the raw ore, pitchblende, seemed to be ___ times as radioactive as Uranium itself.

four

This was one of the most important paper in the history of chemistry, yet it was almost universally ___________ because she was a graduate student; she spoke French with a Polish accent; she was married to a teacher in an industrial school; and she was a woman.

ignored

These rays were powerful enough to penetrate thick black paper and create an _____ on a photographic plate.

image

She also developed an impressive technique for finding _____________.

more new radioactive elements

The Lumiere brothers were thrilling crowds with their new inventions, __________ that actually moved.

moving pictures

In 1902, after four years of arduous work, Marie finally succeeded in isolating _____ of a gram of radium chloride from ten tons of pitchblende residue.

one-tenth

When it came time to recognize her work, it very nearly went to _________.

other people

She placed it correctly in the ___________.

periodic table

It was necessary to find a new term to define this new property of matter. She proposed ___________.

radioactivity

She would go on to win a _______ all on her own.

second

But if radioactivity was atoms falling apart, there must be even _________ inside, still awaiting discovery.

smaller pieces

In order to satisfy the requirements of the chemical scientific community, the Curies had to process tons of pitchblende. Marie soon realized that radium was a ________ part of the pitchblende than she ever imagined; less than a ___________ of one percent.

smaller; millionth

The discovery implied something even more profound. Up to then most scientists believed atoms were the _______ units of matter.

smallest

She showed that radioactivity is a feature of matter that is not specific to one quirky ___________.

substance

That meant not one, but _____ new elements might be hidden in the ore.

two

The Curies soon discovered that __ distinct parts of the pitchblende with different chemical properties were both _____________.

two; radioactive