BIOGRAPHY OF MARIE CURIE

She was a pionner in research about radioactivity, a word she coined.  She discovered RADIO, a very important chemical element.

The first woman who graduated in the Sorbonna University.  The first woman in France to complete a doctorate.

She was the first person to be honored as a Nobel Laureate in two different sciences:  Nobel Prize of Physics on 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemestry on 1911.

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on november 7, 1867.

The daughter of a secondary school teacher.  She received a general education in local school and some scientific training from her father.  The youngest of 5 children,  her mother died when Marie was 11.

In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne University, where she obteined degree in Physics on 1893 and the Mathematical Sciences on 1894.

She had already begun to work as a researcher and it was through her work that she met Pierre Curie in 1894.  One year later they were married on july 26, 1895.  Their first child Irene, was born in 1897. 

She worked hard and married a fellow scientist, who helped her with her work.  After the discovery of X-Rays she helped in world war I especilly she supported the French war effort actively.  She put her prize winnings into war bonds and fitted ambulances with portable X-Ray equipment for medial purposes.

The researcher and discovered of the Curie married, with the radioactivity of the Radio allowed others researchers of physics, medical treatments, include watches that glow in the dark.

The work of Marie Curie, her husband, and colleagues with radioactivity was done in ignorance of its effect on human health.  Marie Curie and her daughter Irene contracter leukemia, apparenty induced by exposure to hight levels of radioactivity.  The notebooks of Marie Curie are still so radioactive that they cannot be handled.  Marie Curie’s health was declining seriously by the end of the 1920s.  Cataracts contributed to failing vision.

Marie Curie retired to a sanatorium, with her daughter Eve as her companion.  Marie Curie died of pernicious anemia, also most likely an effect of the radioactivity in her work, in 1934.