On the 7th of November 1867 Marie was born and she died on the 4th of July 1934.

Marie was famous for her work on radioactivity and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. In 1911 she won the noble prize for chemistry. She was the first and is the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

Marie was also the first female professor at the university of Paris.

During her life her father was a teacher of mathematics and physics, but during this he lost his savings through bad investment. This made Marie take up work as a teacher and at the same time she took part in clandestinely in the nationalist “free university.”

From her earnings she was able to finance her sisters medical studies in Paris. She and her sister decided they would help each other pay for their educational needs. This was because their family did not have much money.  

In 1891 Marie went to Paris and began to follow the talks of Paul Appel, Gabriel Lippmann, and Edmond Bouty at the Sorbonne. She took post as governess, at the age of 18 years. 

When Marie was 27 years of age she met a man named Pierre Curie. He was 35 and senior worker in a laboratory of physics. They had a lot in common including a lone of the countryside and a huge passion for the research of physics.

A year later in 1895, Marie and Pierre got married in a town near Paris. Her name changed from Marie Sklodowska to Marie Curie.

One day when Marie was her laboratory, which was offered to, she started to look for different substances that gave off emissions. One of the substances she discovered was called thorium.