NPI Number: 1972872133: LBN Legal business name: CENTRAL ARKANSAS COUNSELING: Authorized official: MARY WILSON - (OWNER) Entity: Organization: Organization subpart 1: No Enumeration date: 12/16/2011: Last updated: 12/16/2011 - About 6 years ago: Identifiers: n/a
After the war she continued her fundraising for the Radium Institute, even traveling to the U.S. in 1921. There, in addition to donations and publicity, she received a gift of one gram of Radium-a gift that effectively doubled her research supply of the costly substance. By 1934, Curie's health was failing rapidly. The toll of heavy exposure to radiation was at last overpowering her impressive constitution. She did live to see Ir ne and son-in-law Fr d ric Joliot-Curie discover artificial radiation, but not long enough to see them win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this achievement. On 4 July 1934 she succumbed to aplastic anemia, or leukemia, induced by radiation exposure.
In France, she met a scientist named Pierre Curie, and on July 26, 1895, they were married. They rented a small apartment in Paris, where Pierre. earned a modest living as a college professor. Marie continued her studies. at the Sorbonne.