Marie Curie

  • BIRTH

    BIRTH

    She was born in Warsaw, Poland.
    Her parents were Wladyslaw Sklodowski and Bronislawa Boguska.
  • HER SISTER'S DEATH

    HER SISTER'S DEATH

    Her older sister Zofia died at the age of fourteen by the typhus, when she had only nine years old.
  • HER MOTHER'S DEATH

    Her mother died one year after her sister by tuberculosis, when she had ten years old.
  • GRADUATION

    GRADUATION

    She was gradated in a girls gymnasium with a gold medal after had being traslated for a boarding school named J. Sikorska.
  • PARIS

    PARIS

    She went to Paris where her sister Bronislawa and her husband were living to study in the University of Paris.
  • PIERRE CURIE

    PIERRE CURIE

    She met Pierre Curie by the poland fisic Józef Kowalski-Wierusz who was informed that Marie needed a big work place, something that Pierre had access.
  • MARRIAGE

    When she arrived France after been one year working in Poland, she had maried with Pierre Curie in Sceaux.
  • THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER

    THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER

    Her daughter Irène was born in Paris, France.
  • A NEW ELEMENT

    A NEW ELEMENT

    Marie and Pierre published an article saying the existenced of a new element which Marie called "Polonio", in honor to Poland.
  • ANOTHER ELEMENT

    ANOTHER ELEMENT

    Marie and Pierre announced the existenced of other element which was called "Radio".
  • HER FATHER'S DEATH

    HER FATHER'S DEATH

    Marie's father died in Poland his birth place.
  • THE NOBEL PRIME

    THE NOBEL PRIME

    Marie Curie, her husband and Henri Becquerel were prize-winning of a Fisics Nobel Price.
  • THE BIRTH OF HER SECOND DAUGHTER

    THE BIRTH OF HER SECOND DAUGHTER

    Her second gaughter called Ève was born in Paris, France.
  • PIERRE'S DEATH

    Marie's husband died in an accident with an horses carriage while he was walking down an intense rain in a street of Paris.
  • DEATH

    DEATH

    Marie died in the Sancellemoz hospital, near Passy because of an anaemia aplastic probably contracted for been exposed by radaction in her works.