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Birth
She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire -
Family
Daughter of the professor of Physics and Mathematics Władysław Skłodowski and of the teacher Bronisława Boguska, Marie Curie was the youngest of five brothers. His childhood was marked by the death of one of his sisters due to typhus, and the death of his mother from tuberculosis when he was only 10 years old. -
Studies
The difficulties she went through since she was little did not daunt her desire to study. After studying basic education, Curie could not enter an institution of higher education for the mere fact of being a woman. However, this only fueled his desire to learn and he joined his sister Bronislawa in a Polish clandestine university that admitted women. Based on effort and sacrifice, in 1893, Marie Curie graduated in Physics from the University of Paris, being number one in her class. -
The discovery of new elements
Marie and Pierre Curie worked side by side in difficult conditions. In 1898 they announced the Marie and Pierre Curie worked side by side in difficult conditions. In 1898 they announced :radio and polonium, both more radioactive than uranium. However, it was not until four years after having proven his discovery.
1903 was the year of recognition of his work. Not only did she get her PhD, she also received the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband -
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Nobel Prizes
In 1898, after the birth of his daughter Irène, she began his doctoral thesis on the properties of uranium rays.In June, she discovered a new chemical element which she named polonium in honor of her native country and, at the end of the year, the radio. In 1903 she shared with Becquerel and Pierre the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1906, Pierre died in an accident and she replaced his husband, in 1911 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, becoming the first person to be awarded twice. -
First woman faculty member
Curie became the first woman faculty member at the École Normale Supérieure, and her husband joined the faculty of the University of Paris. -
Second Nobel
After Pierre's death, Curie discovered that radiation therapy could be a cancer treatment. This made Marie's experiments gain popularity and popularize. Thanks to these investigations, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. -
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Last years
Marie Curie played a very important role during the First World War.
the scientist acquired various automobiles and portable X-ray machines and created "radiological ambulances". Thanks to this gesture, many soldiers were able to save their lives and became the director of the French Red Cross Radiology Service.
Unfortunately, because of the radiation to which she was exposed in her experiments, Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934. -
Death
Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in France, of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I.
