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Polish-French physicist and chemist

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1. 1898: Discovered Radium (and its weight) and Polonium with her husband on accident

2. 1903: Winning a Nobel Prize for amazing research in radioactivity

3. 1911: Wins another Nobel prize for her discovery of radium and polonium

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November 7th, 1867-July 4th, 1934.

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Physics (radioactivity) and Mathematical Sciences.

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Marie’s mother and father were both teachers. However, the father was always going from job to job to help provide for their family. This was causing them to not have a lot of money and they were always moving into smaller apartments to try to make ends meet. Marie’s mother passed away when she was 11.

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Marie was the youngest sibling out of 5 children. However when she was 11, along with her mother her sister passed away. These two deaths were kinda a step where Marie had to start helping out with the family. Her and her sister, Bronya, would help fund each other’s educations.

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Marie had gotten married to Pierre Curie in 1895 after meeting him just a year earlier in university. Together, they had two daughters. Irene Jolliet-Curie was born in 1897 and Eve Curie was born in 1904.

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Marie attended “Sorbonne University in Paris” to get her degree in physics and mathematical science.

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Marie Curie worked at “School of Chemistry and Physics” in Paris, France as a researcher.

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Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris

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Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris

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Marie Curie was also given the opportunity to become the Director of the “Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris”.

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Marie was very much intelligent and had a love for the science she was studying. She also was very quiet, preserved and unassuming. However, she was looked up to all over the world during her time as a scientist.

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This field of study is the release of energy from the decay of the nuclei of certain kinds of atoms and isotopes. This field is also used for many things, including researching the laws of nature, targeting cancer treatments, and heat.

If I had to describe the field of radioactivity to a younger audience, I would describe radioactivity as small particles that grow energy in objects.

The photo above shows the particles that work together to create radioactivity.

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Marie’s husband, Pierre, had been killed in a street accident after being knocked down by a horse and cart in 1906. Marie had also experienced a lot of poorness in her life, with her parents and even with her husband when studying in university and not being taken seriously in the science community because of her gender.

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Other important scientists in this field:

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Other important scientists in this field:

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Henri Becquerel: 1896

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Marie’s most famous discovery was her discovery of radium and polonium by studying invisible rays given off by uranium. This discovery made a huge effect on the world by helping create more medications and saving people’s lives.

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What Marie discovered about this 88th element on December of 1898 was, in her words, "Radiation wasn't dependent on the organisation of atoms at the molecular level; something was happening inside the atom itself."

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When Marie and her husband discovered the 84th element in July of 1898, they had come to the conclusion that the bismuth fraction had a new element. But since it was radioactive, they knew it wasn't the same as the bismuth faction. So, that is when they discovered the now element and its name comes from Marie's birth.

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Marie explored the actions of radioactivity by studying invisible rays given off by uranium.

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The impact of Marie’s work on our future generations of scientists is because of her discoveries, she actually paved the way for our scientists to discover neutrons and human-made radioactivity.