MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born in Poland on November 7, 1867. At the age of 16 she won a gold medal when finishing the secondary school. After a while, she started working as a teacher to help her family. When she has a 18 years old, she worked as a governess and paid for her sister´s medical school with the money she received.
In 1891, Marie went to Paris and worked at a laboratory of the physicist Gabriel Lippman. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie, and they got married on July 25, 1895.In 1898 they discovered the element Polonium. . A few months later, she and Pierre also discovered Radium. Marie also obtained pure metallic radium with A. Debierne and in 1903, Marie won the Nobel Prize in Physics. She became the first woman to receive a Novel Prize in Physics. In 1904 she was an assistant of the laboratory at Sevres.
On April 19, 1906, Marie’s husband died but she continued her scientific work. She became the first female head of Laboratory at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1906 and also received another Nobel Prize, this one in Chemistry, in 1911. She was the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. In 1922, Marie became a member of the Academy of Medicine.
On July 4, 1934, Marie died of leukemia, probably caused by her exposure to radiation during her experiments.

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