Later Life

After she won the Nobel Prize she began to hire women in her lab to start them in Physics and at home she was training Irene to be a Physicist,
-During WWI she and Irene took X-rays of wounded soldiers and helped to save many lives

-She continued to work until she succumbed to the negative affects of radiation and in 1934 she died in Paris

-Her legacy lived on through her daughter and her discoveries helped heal many people

The Height of her Career

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

Marie Curie's Early Life

Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw Poland. Her parents were both teachers and they set high expectations for there five children, Zosia, Bronia, Jozef, Helena and Marie. The Sklodowski family was very intellengent but struggled with money. At the time, Poland was occupies by Russia and Germany and most of the higher payer jobs were taken by them. To help meet living expenses, Marie's family took in student boarders. The household was crowded, with too many people in one apartment. Those crowded living circumstances caused the spread of tuberculosis, a major infectious disease in the late nineteenth century. Marie's mother got the disease, and after several expensive rest cures in the south of France, she died in 1878 when Marie was only nine years old. After her mothers death came death of sister. She was destraut adn felt very depressed during this time. Her fantasy was to go to Paris and Study Medicine, but she had to work for that dream. To prepare for University she attended the “Flying school” which was a secret school for women. At the time it was illegal for women to go to school in Poland. Soon she was accepted as one of the few girls at Sorbonne University and chose to study physics . To pay for Sorbonne she got a job as a governess.

Marie Curie PIctures

This is Marie's Nobel Prize Portrait that
was taken the year that she first won the prize.



This is a picture of Marie, Her Husband, and their daughter Irene.
Irene also went on to win a Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie Fun Facts

- Won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery o fthe elements radium and polonium

- Marie was born November 7, 1867 and died July, 4, 1934 at the age of 66

- She was the first twice honored Nobel laureate (and stilll the only one in tow different science)

-In 1903 she and her husband each won one fourth of the prize for physics in recognition of their joint research on the radiation phenomena "spontaneous radiation" discovered by Professor Henri Bacqueral

- Was the first woment to teach at the Sorbinne institute in France

-Her husband died after being overly exposed to radiation when her was run over by a horse drawn carriage

- Marie was one of five children

For a time she worked as a governess to help pay for her sisters medical education

Marie Curie Overview

Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists of all time. She won a fourth of the Nobel Prize in 1903 and won the full prize in 1911. She has an element named after her: Curium. She helped discover alongside her husband much of what we know about radioactiviy. Marie Grew up in a family that struggled with money because of their patriotism in there native country of Poland, but, she grew up to have a secondary eduaction and become the first women to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Marie Curie is also the only person to a win a prize for two different sciences, physics and chemistry.