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CONCLUSION:

Marie Curie was born in 1867 (Poland) and died in 1934 due to exposure to radiation. Marie was an independant, smart, succsesful and authentic woman with plenty of courage and self-confidence. She was a  french physicist and chemist who lived for her family and profession (science). Through  Marie's outstanding scientific accomplishments she became the first woman to recieve two nobel prizes in the subjects Physics and Chemistry. She, together with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered a whole new element! Radioactivity!
She was truly a fenominal leader of science.

HOW DID/DO OTHERS VIEW HER?

THEN:
Back when Marie was trying to convince everyone in the scienific world of her discoveries about Radium (Ra), many people disagreed with Marie's statements, partly because she was female. Some even thought she was trying to change the undertanding of matter itself! A while after, when Marie could prove her theorys people started changing there minds about her, some even started acknowledging her and  looking up to her.When it reached the point where Marie Curie had one two nobel prizes for Physics and Chemistry she was recognised as a leader.

NOW:
Nowadays many people look up to Marie as a pesistant woman who fought for what she believed, and the great scientific leader who discovered a raidium (Ra).

HOW DID MARIE CURIE'S LIFE INFLUENCE OTHERS?

Marie Curie accepted the most dismal working conditions in order to follow her passion for science and investigation. She strove for the greatest possible accuracy. Marie's dedication led to Marie discovering a whole new element (Ra). This fundimental discovery helped to develop technology with raidioactive materials and also to recognise the dangers assosiated in dealing with Radioactivity. Nowadays there are many people with jobs to do with radioactivity, e.g. radiologist, radiographer.
Marie also played a leading role for womens recognition (capabillities) in science. Marie Curie established through her career and scientific knowledge that women have the potential to be great scientists, a fact that was denied be many men at the time.

WHAT WERE THE KEY EVENTS THAT SHOWED MARIE CURIE'S LEADERSHIP STYLE?

• One example of Marie Curie's scientific leadership was when she won two noble prizes, one of them for Physics in 1903 and the other Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
• Marie Curie was very good a public speaking (even though many of her ideas shared at the public speaking events were contradicted by the public). This was shown in he "discovery of raidium" speech. 
• In world war 1 Marie Curie established the wide spread use of X-ray machines to indentify internal injuries amongst the soldiers. She, togehter with her daughter Irene, taught 150 nurses how to use them. 

WHAT WERE MARIE CURIE'S LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES?

• intelligence and action-oriented judgement

e.g. her discovery of a new element

• eagerness to accept responsibility

e.g. accepting the teching role of her passed away husbant (Peirre)

• task competence

e.g. experiments towards discovering the new element

• skill in dealing with people

e.g. Red Cross

• capacity to motivate people

e.g. teaching 150 nurses how to use X-ray machines, Red Cross

• courage, persistance and perseverance

e.g. she showed courage, persistance and perseverance in her desire to become a scientist

• decisiveness

e.g. she never gave up to follow her dreams and goals.

• self-confidence/assertiveness

e.g. Marie remained self-confident about her theories, the theories that were doubted by many

• public speaking

e.g. discovery of radium speech

WHY IS MARIE CURIE A LEADER?

Marie Curie was a great leader not only through

her scientific skills and knowledge she was also

a very independent, persistant and strong willed

woman.

e.g. In Marie Curies' time women and men did

not have equal wrights e.g. women were not

allowed to vote, men did not think women were

equally capable performing tasks of important

academic or political roles. Marie still belived it

was possible for a women to recieve a doctor

digree and so she remained persistant in her desire.

She became the first woman to recieve a Ph.D. in

research science in Europe.