Madame Marie Curie

  • Marie Curie was Born

  • Won gold medal for gymnastics

  • Left Poland for France

  • Had daughter Irene

  • Discovered Radium

  • Discovered Polonium

  • Curies optimistically weighed out a 100-gram sample of pitchblende and ground it with a pestle and morta

  • Obtained traces of radium

  • École Normale Supérieure

  • Marie isolated pure radium metal

  • Visited Poland when Father died

  • Nobel Prize in Physics

  • Davy Medal

  • Matteucci medal

  • Elliott Cresson Medal

  • Nobel Prize Chemistry

  • Avoided Public Life

  • Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society

  • Visited Poland for the last time

  • Marie Curie Died