Marie curie

Marie Curie

·      Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867.

·       After her brilliant performance, Marie worked as a governess for eight years to support her family.

·      In 1893, she graduated from Sorbonne, Paris.

·      At Sorbonne, Marie met Pierre Curie an eminent physicist, and they got married in 1895.

·      They together announced the discovery of two new radioactive elements, polonium and radium.

·      In 1903 , Marie shared the Nobel prize for physics with Pierre Curie and Henri  Becquerel.

·      After Pierre’s accidential death in 1906, she succeeded him as professor of physics at Sorbonne.

·      In 1911, she was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, being the first scientist to get two Nobel prizes.

·      Marie Curie died on July 4 1934, due to illness caused by overexposure to radioactivity.