Jaks Prize

-1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for photoelectric effect and electron work


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Jaks Education

-Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London
– Appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in 1884


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Jaks Prize

-1903 won Nobel Prize in physics with husband and Henri Bequerel on joint research of Radiation
-1911 won Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering Polonium and Radium


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Jaks Education

-University of Paris studying Physics, Chemistry and Math


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Jaks Theory

-discovered two elements – Polonium and Radium
-developed the theory of radioactivity
-discovered techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes


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Jaks Education

-16, earned math degree
-18, completed higher degree
– couldn’t go to doctorate because not enough money to pay for it


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