Rearranging: Marie Curie: The First Woman to Win Two Nobel Prizes
Jumbled Sentences:
Rearrange the following sentences in correct sequential order to write a coherent and logical narrative:
- In 1911, she won her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for isolating pure radium.
- Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867.
- Since Polish universities did not admit female students, she worked as a governess to fund her studies.
- In 1891, she moved to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne University, surviving on bread and tea in a freezing attic.
- She met and married fellow scientist Pierre Curie, and together they investigated pitchblende ore.
- In 1898, after years of backbreaking labor stirring boiling cauldrons, they announced the discovery of polonium and radium.
- In 1903, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Pierre and Henri Becquerel.
- During World War I, she developed mobile battlefield X-ray units called "Little Curies" to save wounded soldiers.
- She died in 1934 from aplastic anemia caused by prolonged radiation exposure.
- She remains the only person in human history to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Correct Order & Sequential Key:
b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> a -> h -> i -> j
The Reconstructed Story / Text:
Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867. Since Polish universities did not admit female students, she worked as a governess to fund her studies. In 1891, she moved to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne University, surviving on bread and tea in a freezing attic. She met and married fellow scientist Pierre Curie, and together they investigated pitchblende ore. In 1898, after years of backbreaking labor stirring boiling cauldrons, they announced the discovery of polonium and radium. In 1903, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Pierre and Henri Becquerel. In 1911, she won her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for isolating pure radium. During World War I, she developed mobile battlefield X-ray units called "Little Curies" to save wounded soldiers. She died in 1934 from aplastic anemia caused by prolonged radiation exposure. She remains the only person in human history to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.