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She was born in Warsaw.
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She went to Paris to study physics and mathematics
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She met Pierre Curie (professor of the School of Physics) at the University. They were married years later.
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They discovered a new chemical element, polonium, in July. At the end of the year they discovered the radium.
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They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
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When Pierre died, she decided to continue the work that they had begun together. She became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne
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She received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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By the late 1920s her health was beginning to deteriorate. She died from leukaemia, caused by exposure to high-energy radiation from her research.
