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Born
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie or Madame Curie (Warsaw, November 7, 1867-Passy, July 4, 1934), was a Polish physicist and chemist who became a French national. -
Education
He studied clandestinely at the "floating university" in Warsaw and began his scientific training in that city. In 1891, at the age of 24, he followed his older sister Bronisława Dłuska to Paris, where he completed his studies and carried out his most outstanding scientific work. -
Biography
Marie Curie grew up in Warsaw, Poland. Her birth name was Maria Sklodowska. Her parents were both teachers. Her dad taught math and physics and her mom was headmistress at a girl's school. Marie was the youngest of five children. Growing up the child of two teachers, Marie was taught to read and write early. She had a sharp memory and worked hard on her studies. In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marie and Pierre Curie as well as Henri Becquerel for their work in radiation. -
Death
He died in 1934 at the age of 66, in the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy, from aplastic anemia caused by exposure to radiation from test tubes with radium that he kept in his pockets at work1314 and during the construction of the units. X-ray mobiles from the First World War.