Marie Curie †Change Agent Essay

Marie Curie has been chosen as a change agent due to the fact that she was the initiatory woman to win a Nobel prize. She studied radioactivity, a term which she invented, (1) and invented movable x-ray machines which were carried by vans to the wounded in the field during World struggle I. (2) Element 96 was named curium (Cm) in the honor of Pierre and Marie Curie. (3) She do important advancements in the area of science, as remembered by the Curie institute, which for a time she was director of. The institute was named for her because of all the advancements she had made during her studies, and the work she did at the institute itself. The change that she made was for education for women to be accepted, and for women working in science to be more acceptable in her time.Works Cited(1) http//www.lucidcafe.com/ library/95nov/curie.html(2) http//www.diplomatie.gov.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CURIE/marie.htm(3) http//www.student-consolidation.net/nobel-prize-winners/curie-sklo dowska/curie-sklodowska.htm