At the age of 24, Marie Arrived in Paris, she was one of the 23 women of 1825 students at Sorbonne University.
While completely her first year of college she met a young physicist named Pierre Curie, he persuaded her to research the then mysterious invisible energy called radiation. Marie Spent Years trying to purify Uranium Ore buthen developed a theory. Marie proposed that the radiation came from inside the atoms. She also discovered two new elements which they ( Pierre & Marie) named Radium (after "radiation") and Polonium (after Poland). While working together they fell in love and were married In 1903 the each received a fourth of the Nobel Prize in Physics. But, both her and her husband Pierre were overly exposed to the radiation but she never wanted to admit it was harmful. Though she showed symtoms such as fatigue. Marie and Pierre had two daughters, Irene and Eve. As the Curie's work became more adn more time consuming Pierre's father took over the childcare duties. Unfortunately, Pierre was run over by a horse-drawn wagon and died. At the tim ehe was having extreme pains in his legs and this coudl have caused the accident. Marie was Devastated but continued to work. Then in 1911 Swedish Nobel committee announced she had won the prize for chemistry
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