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Marie Curie was born as Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Poland, Varsovia -
In May 1878 her mother passed away after working at a children's boarding school in Warsaw.
The cause of her death was tuberculosis. -
Marie was studying at J.Sikorska's boarding school, then she transferred to a girls' school where she graduated.
She had a gold medal for being one of the best students. -
Earlier this year his sister Bronislawa. He invited her to join them in Paris. Marie did not accept the proposal because she could not afford the college tuition. -
Marie, with the help of her father, was able to get the necessary money to travel to France where she would be with her sister and brother-in-law where she continued with her studies in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. Where she enrolled in late 1891
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He completed his studies in physics and chemistry successfully and with honors. He began to carry out his first investigation of the magnetic properties of various steels, commissioned by the Society for the Promotion of National Industry. He met Pierre Curie who offered him his laboratory to work with. -
Influenced by the discoveries of Becquerel and Röntgen, she chose uranium rays as a possible field of research for a thesis and with the help of her husband she investigated the nature of the radiation produced by uranium salts.
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On July 26, 1895, they were married at Sceaux in a simple wedding without religious ceremony. Marie wore a dark blue suit, the same one that she wore for many years as a lab suit.
Her name became Marie Curie. -
Marie and Pierre became parents to a girl named Irene.
Marie had to start teaching at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. -
In July 1898, the couple published an article in which they announced the existence of an element that they called "polonium", in honor of Poland.
Marie suffered from swollen fingertips, the first known symptoms of lightning disease that would accompany her for the rest of her life. -
On December 26, 1898, they announced the existence of a second element, which they called "radio." The research coined the word "radioactivity." -
In 1900, Marie Curie was the first woman to be appointed professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and her husband received a professorship at the University of Paris.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Marie Curie the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, together with her husband and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services rendered in their joint investigations into the radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel She was the first woman to receive such an award. -
Marie gave birth to her second daughter, Ève, after suffering a miscarriage probably caused by radioactivity. Years later, she hired Polish governesses to teach her daughters her mother tongue and sent (or took with her) to visit Poland. -
Pierre died while walking in the rain when he was struck by a horse-drawn carriage, falling under the ropes causing a fatal fracture to his skull. Marie was left a widow and greatly depressed by the death of her life partner and her science partner.
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On May 13, 1906, the Department of Physics at the University of Paris decided to offer her the position that had been created for her husband. She accepted it in the hope of creating a world-class laboratory as a tribute to her husband. the first woman to hold the post of professor at that university and the first director of a laboratory at that institution.
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In 1911 the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This award was "in recognition of her services in advancing chemistry through the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the isolation of radium, and the study of the nature and compounds of this element." She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. -
In the plenary session of the Institute of France on January 4, 1911, the members of the Council clung to the tradition of not allowing female members and revalidated the decision with a majority of 85 votes against to 60 in favor.
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She received a visit from Albert Einstein with whom he made a summer expedition in the Swiss Engadine -
She became the director of the Radiology Service of the French Red Cross and created the first military radiology center in France, operational at the end of 1914.
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Marie looked after the institute and the radio shows. -
In 1921 Marie was received by the President of the United States of North America in the White House and symbolically gave him a gram of radium collected in the North American country.
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In August 1922, Marie Curie was a constituent member of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. That year she became a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. -
She was one of the most important members and although these positions took a lot of time from her, they served to finance the work she wanted to do.
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In the spring of 1934, Marie died in the Sancellemoz sanatorium, due to aplastic anemia, probably contracted by the radiation to which she was exposed in her work.