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Maria Salomea Sklodowska, known as Marie Curie, was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw. Both of her parents were teachers. Her father was a physics and math instructor and her mother was a teacher, pianist and singer.
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Women could not attend University at the time, so she continued her education at an underground University, which organised informal classes held in secret. Meanwhile, Curie worked as a tutor to make some money, and used her free time to study and read about physics, chemistry and math.
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In 1891, Marie Curie finally went to Paris with the money she had saved and some more from his father, and continued with her math, physics and chemistry studies.
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Curie completed her master's degree in physics and another one in mathematics the following year.
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Marie married the French physicist Pierre Curie on July 26, 1895.
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In July, 1898, Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the existence of new element, and called it "polonium", in honor of Polony.
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Marie and her husband announced the existence of a second new element, which they called "radium".
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Marie Curie won her first Nobel Prize, shared with his husband, in 1903.
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In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Marie became the first woman, as well as the first person, to win this award twice.
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On July 4, 1934, she died due to an aplastic anemia caused by exposure to radiation.
