{"id":50938,"date":"2020-04-01T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/?p=50938"},"modified":"2020-04-01T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:21:06","slug":"marie-curie-and-her-x-ray-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/blog\/marie-curie-and-her-x-ray-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Curie and Her X-Ray Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Madame Marie Curie first arrived in the United States in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements polonium and radium, coined the term \u201cradioactive,\u201d and won the Nobel Prize. Twice. She was a woman triumphing in science, in what was then a man\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

Born Maria Salomea Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland (1867-1934), the youngest of five children, to two poor school teachers \u2014 Marie Curie became one of the most significant scientists of all time in a Victorian-era where academic opportunities for women were scarce. While many of her achievements have been lauded, not all her ingenious inventions are as well known. And one of this iconic researcher\u2019s achievements is central to today\u2019s fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n

In 1903, Marie Curie won the Nobel prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and the physicist Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity \u2014 she was the first woman ever to receive that honor. Curie later carried out the first research into treating cancer with radiation and founded the Curie Institutes<\/a>, which are important medical research centers to this day.<\/p>\n

In a tremendous nod to the number two \u2014 the second Nobel Prize she won in 1911<\/a> was even more epic: with that win in chemistry, Curie became the first person to receive the Nobel Prize twice. And to this day, she remains the only person to ever win Nobel Prizes for work in two different branches of science. The second Nobel Prize that Marie Curie received acknowledged her research and discovery of two new elements that were added to the periodic table: polonium and radium. The first she named as an homage to her home country, Poland, and the second element for the Latin word for ray.<\/p>\n

During World War I, Marie Curie invented something that has proven critical to today’s fight against COVID-19 \u2014 the “Little Curie” \u2014 a mobile x-ray unit, which could be transported right to the battlefield, where army surgeons could use x-rays to guide field surgeries.<\/p>\n

Today \u2014 as nearly all hospital and healthcare systems nationwide (and soon, globally) battle to avoid becoming deluged with new and suspected cases of COVID-19 \u2014 radiologists are waging their own fight to provide imaging while keeping equipment clean and ready to go. \u201cThe chest x-ray has taken center stage as a frontline diagnostic test for the new coronavirus,\u201d shared Samanjit Hare, a chest radiologist with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, in an editorial published recently in the British Medical Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a field hospital under construction on a grassy meadow in New York City\u2019s iconic Central Park \u2014 and the Jacob Javits Center transformed into a 1,000-bed makeshift hospital to combat COVID-19 \u2014 we have brilliant Marie Curie to thank for making portable, on-site radiology possible.<\/p>\n

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement.
\nMarie Curie<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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About the author.<\/strong>
\nAn award-winning creator and digital health, wellness, and lifestyle content strategist \u2014 Karina writes, edits, and produces compelling content across multiple platforms \u2014 including articles, video, interactive tools, and documentary film. Her work has been featured on MSN Lifestyle, Apartment Therapy, Goop, Psycom, Pregnancy & Newborn, Eat This Not That, thirdAGE, and Remedy Health Media digital properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Madame Marie Curie first arrived in the United States in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements polonium and radium, coined the term \u201cradioactive,\u201d and won the Nobel Prize. Twice. She was a woman triumphing in science, in what was then a man\u2019s world. 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