Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw and died on the July 4, 1934 in Passy, Haute-Savoie. She was a Polish physicist, chemist and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first woman professor at the University of Paris. With her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honors twice. Her efforts with her husband Pierre led to the discovery of polonium and radium.
Curie is the only person together with Linus Pauling to win a Nobel Prize in two different categories.
she left Poland and went to France under the name “Marie", she became a french citizen.
She met her husband, Pierre, at the Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry. Marie and Pierre had their first daughter, Irene, in 1897. Their second daughter, Eve, was born in 1904. Pierre died on April 19, 1906, after he was hit by a horse-drawn wagon.
Near the 1920s, Curie began to suffer from symptoms of cancer. She began to lose her sight. Cataract surgeries to try to bring back her sight didn't help. Curie knew that the radium) that she discovered might have been causing the symptoms, but she did not want to admit it to herself. In the 1930s, Curie’s health started to quickly get worse. Doctors diagnosed her with pernicious anemia.
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