# data[].attributes.body
Marie Curie (At the time her name was Maria Salomea Sklodowska) is born on November 7 in Warsaw, Poland.

# data[].attributes.body
Her father, a teacher of math and physics, looses his savings because of a bad investment. Marie is forced to go to work as a teacher, and later a governess. She uses the savings to pay for medical school for her sister in Paris.

# data[].attributes.body
Marie goes to Paris to study at the Sorbonnne.

# data[].attributes.body
Marie meets and gets married to her husband, Pierre Curie.

# data[].attributes.body
Henri Becquerel, a French scientist discovers that the element uranium gives off odd waves of energy. He passes the information on the Marie, and she studies and experiments with it, naming to radioactivity. Marie announces her discovery of two new elements: radium and polonium.

# data[].attributes.body
She, along with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel is awarded a Nobel prize in physics for discovering radioactivity.

# data[].attributes.body
Pierre Curie sadly dies in a car accident. Marie takes over his job at the Sorbonne, in Paris.

# data[].attributes.body
Marie is awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating pure radium for the fist time.

# data[].attributes.body
World War 1 begins. Throughout the war, Marie and her daughter, Irene, work on making new X-Ray technology with the knowledge she has on radioactivity.

# data[].attributes.body
Marie helps open the Radium Institute in her hometown, Warsaw, Poland. Her sister becomes the director of the institute.

# data[].attributes.body
Marie Curie's work sadly kills her. She gets Leukemia due to the large amount of radiation she was exposed to.

# data[].attributes.body
Chemists in America discover a new element, and, in honor of Marie and Pierre Curie, name it Curium.

# data[].attributes.body
1. Marie Curie often fainted from hunger in her earlier years.
2. She was involved in aiding soldiers in WW1.
3. Her older daughter also won a Nobel prize in later years.

# data[].attributes.headline
1. How is this project topic relevant today?

# data[].attributes.subject
1. How is this project topic relevant today?

# data[].attributes.body
This topic is relevant today because sometimes people "rank" men higher than women. Marie Curie was born into a time where women were treated unfair, just because they weren't men, way more than today. But, even though she was female, she still made her mark in history as an amazing physicist. Girls and women today can do the same, in their own special way.

# data[].attributes.headline
2. What did you know before researching, and what new info do you have now?

# data[].attributes.subject
2. What did you know before researching, and what new info do you have now?

# data[].attributes.body
Prior to my research, I knew nearly nothing about Marie Curie. I had maybe heard her name once or twice, but until now, her life meant nothing to me. (Which sounds really harsh. I'm glad I chose to research her!) What I found out was that she was really important in the world of science. We would be lacking so much knowledge about radioactivity (and other things) without her.

# data[].attributes.headline
3. How have you personally grown in science this year so far?

# data[].attributes.subject
3. How have you personally grown in science this year so far?

# data[].attributes.body
I have learned so much about science over this semester! More than I ever thought I could in that amount of time. I gained a lot knowledge about atoms, matter, chemistry, physical and chemical changes, synthetic and natural, and much more. I think that balancing chemical formulas was one of my favorites. Overall, there is much more to science than I ever thought possible.