Marie curie

Marie Curie

By Raina Clark

  • Birth

    Birth
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    The life of Marie Curie

  • Mother's death

    Mother's death
    She was 10 years old, when her mother died of tuberculosis. Shortly after her older sister had died of typhus.

  • Graduation

    Graduation
    Marie Curie graduated high school at age 15.

  • Married

    Married
    In July 1885 Marie married her ten years elder Pierre Curie.

  • Irene Joliot-Curie born

    Their daughter was born.

  • First Nobel Prize

    First Nobel Prize
    This Nobel Prize was in Physics

  • Pierre died

    Pierre slipped and fell in the street, and his head was crushed under the wheels of a heavy wagon, killing him instantly.

  • Second Nobel Prize

    Second Nobel Prize
    The second nobel prize was in the field of Chemistry.

  • Death

    Death