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She was born
Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was the youngest of five children. He parents worked as teachers and they brought her up to love learning. Her mother died in 1877.Manya, as they called her, and her sisters had to get jobs. Manya became a tutor for a family. She there enjoyed her time and could send money to her father and her sister, Bronya , who was studying medicine in Paris. -
Nobel Prize in Physics
When she graduated from university, she started research into magnetism. It was at that time she met Pierre Curie, a young scientist. They fell in love immediately and got married. Marie moved to his house and they both started examining uranium and to decide whether they we radioactive. It took them four years to isolate the radioactive source which she named radium. For this, they won Prize in Physics in 1903. -
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During World War I, she designed the first mobile X-Ray machine and travelled with it along the front lines. -
Death
Marie died July, 1934 in Paris. She died of radiation poisoning. She worked hard and proved that if a person keeps to their goals, they will succeed.
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