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Happy to be Here?
Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, in the Russian partition of Poland(Warsaw in modern-day Poland), on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława, née Boguska, and Władysław Skłodowski. The elder siblings of Maria (nickname: Mania) were Zofia, Józef, Bronisława and Helena -
Goodbye Sister
in the year 1876 Maria's oldest sibling ,Zofia, had died of typhus. -
Goodbye to you too Mother
Maria's mother died losing a five-year battle with tuberculosis when Maria was only ten,on May 1878.The deaths of Maria's mother and sister caused her to give up Catholicism and become agnostic, a person who neither denies nor believes in the existince of god. -
Travel With Me
Bronisława, maria's sister, invited Maria to join her in Paris. Maria declined because she could not afford the university's tuition. -
I'm Here, Finally!
Maria finally made her way to Paris where she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris. -
A Masters Degree in Physics
Marie as a top student of her class completed her master's degree in physics in Paris. -
Another Masters in Math
Marie earns anothe masters in math -
I Do
pierre Currie and Marie Curie got Married -
Our First Daughter!
Marie and Pierre had a daughter, Irene, in 1897, but their work didn't slow down. -
polonium
Working with the mineral pitchblende, Marie and Pierre discovered a new radioactive element in 1898. They named the element polonium, after Marie's native country of Poland. as well as radium. -
Another Radioactive Element
Maria began a systematic search for additional substances that emit radiation, and by 1898 she discovered that the element thorium was also radioactive -
It truly Exists!
In 1902, the Curies announced that they had produced a decigram of pure radium, demonstrating its existence as a unique chemical element. -
Au Revoir Father
In 1902 she visited Poland on the occasion of her father's death -
I'm a Doctor?
In June 1903, supervised by Gabriel Lippmann, Curie was awarded her doctorate from the University of Paris -
The First Noble Prize
Marie and Pierre Curie both recieved their first noble prize -
My Second Daughter
The Curies welcomed a second child, daughter Eve. -
Au Revoir Husband
Marie's husband Pierre was killed in Paris after he accidentally stepped in front of a horse-drawn wagon. -
The Second Nobel Prize
Marie received another great honor in 1911, winning her second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. -
The War Has Begun
When World War I broke out in 1914, Curie devoted her time and resources to helping the cause. She championed the use of portable X-ray machines in the field -
Adieu World
Marie died of aplastic anemia, which can be caused by prolonged exposure to radiation
