Short biography of madame marie curie
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Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
This article is about the Polish-French physicist. For the musician, see Marie Currie. For other uses, see Marie Curie (disambiguation).
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie[a] (Polish:[ˈmarjasalɔˈmɛaskwɔˈdɔfskakʲiˈri]ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (KURE-ee;[1]French:[maʁikyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.[2]
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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867. Her early years were sorrowful. As a child, she suffered the deaths of her sister and, four years later, her mother. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She was notable for her diligent work ethic, neglecting even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a mental breakdown for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish universities so she worked as a governess for several years.
Sklodowska eventually left Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated bygd Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne, where she became the first woman to teach, after obtaining her Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Scienc
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There was a time when people didn't think that women were clever enough to work in science.
We know today this is nonsense, but not then.
One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives of people all over the world and showed that girls are as good at science as boys!
When Marie lived in Poland girls were not allowed to go to university, so her parents had to send her in secret.
She later moved to Paris to study.
Marie married another scientist, Pierre. They worked together to find out about the tiny parts, called elements, that make up everything in our Universe.
They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity.
They were given the most important prize in the world for science: the Nobel Prize. Marie was the first woman ever to receive this!
Marie and Pierre found that radium could help the body fight cancer cells.
Sadly Pierre died when he was just 4