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MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie was a Polish-French scientist who won two Nobel prizes. Her work focused on radioactivity.
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Her parents were teachers who valued education. Girls did not go to school in those days, so Marie and her sister, Bronislawa, saved enough money to study in France. In 1891 Maria entered the Sorbonne, a university in Paris. Within three years, Marie completed degrees in physics and math. She began working with a French scientist, Pierre Curie. They got married in 1895.
In 1896 a French scientist named Henri Becquerel discovered the unusual rays of energy from uranium. Marie began studying it, and she named radioactivity. In 1898 the Curies announced their discovery of radium and polonium. In 1903 the Curies shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Becquerel.
After Pierre died in 1906, Marie carried on their research. She also became the first woman professor at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Marie did not realize that working with radioactive material could make her ill. She died on July 4, 1934.
