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What did Madame Dluska mean when she said this is only the beginning?
Answer: By this statement ‘ This is only the beginning’ madam dluska wants to indicate curies that this is the beginning of their success and Fame very soon whole of the Paris and most reputed personalities will be knocking at their door.
What does the last anecdote tell you about Madame Curie?
Explanation: The last anecdote tells us that, the Curies were people interested in scientific ideas, and not in people. Even when they were getting opportunity to meet the King of Greece, Marie denied.
Do you think the Curies close relationship contributed to their success?
She could speak with confidence because she knew that she had her husband‟s full support in her research work. Infact, her work complemented and supported her husband‟s work. Their relationship certainly contributed to their success.
Did the Nobel Prize bring the Curies what they wanted?
No!! The nobel prize didn’t bring them what they actually wanted. They were interested in science and only science. They wished to have a laboratory where they could work undisturbed but they hardly ever got it.
Why did the holy man help Raman?
The holy man was pleased by Tenali Raman because he was good at his studies and stopped playing pranks for elders. He helped Tenali by teaching the Mantra of pleasing the Goddess and the way of getting boon from goddess.
How did the Holy Man influence in Tenali’s life?
Who was Marie Curie and what did she do in Poland?
While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames, never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland.
Why did Marie Curie stay away from public life?
A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalised with depression and a kidney ailment. For most of 1912, she avoided public life but did spend time in England with her friend and fellow physicist, Hertha Ayrton. She returned to her laboratory only in December, after a break of about 14 months.
What did Marie Curie use her radium needles for?
In 1915, Curie produced hollow needles containing “radium emanation”, a colorless, radioactive gas given off by radium, later identified as radon, to be used for sterilizing infected tissue. She provided the radium from her own one-gram supply.