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She was born in Warsaw, Poland, the 7th November 1867. She is 4 years old in the photo.
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She arrived France in 1891 and she started studying Medicine in The Sorbone, Paris
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She married with Pierre Curie in 1895 and they had 2 children
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She carried out the theory of radioactivity in 1896
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She discovered these two chemical elements with his husband, Pierre Curie, in 1898
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In 1903 she won the Physics Nobel Prize, being the first woman to win it.
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In 1911, Marie won the Chemics Nobel Prize, being her second Nobel Prize
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In 1921, Marie Curie founded the Curie Institute in Paris, France. The institute now operates several research units in cooperation with national research institutions.
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Marie Curie died the 4th July 1934 because of a plastic anemia caused by the exposure to radium in her laboratory. She was 66 years old when she died.
