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Marie Sklowdowska was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw Poland. Even as a young girl she was very smart and had a great memory. At age 16, she won a gold medal for completing her secondary education at the Russian Lycee.

Her Father was a techer of mathematics and physics who lost all his money in a bad investment. To help her family, Marie got a job as a teacher and work in a part Clandestinelhyy in the nationalist "Free University". At age 18, Matie worked as a govevness; during her work, she suffered through an unhappy love affair.

Eager to learn more, Marie financed her sister, Bronia under the condition that Bronia would teach her about what she learned. In 1894, Marie placed second in the licence of mathematical sciences. Later in the year, she met Pierre Curie. Marie married Pierre on July 25, 1895. Their marriage was a great success on not only an emotional level, but also a scientific level. Together, they discovered polonium and radium.

She and Pierre studied more of henri Becquerel's discovery in 1896 of a new phenomenon that Marie caleed :radio activity". Continuing her education, Marie got a doctorate in science in June 1903. Also in 1903, Marie and Pierre were awareded the Bavy Medal of the Royal Society and got the Nobel Prized for the diesocvery of radio activity with Becquerel. In 1897, Marie and Pierre had their first daughter, Irene.Seven years later, they had their second child who they named Eve. Though, the birth of their two daughters didn't hold Marie back She was appointed lecturer in physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure for girls in severs in 1900 and introduced there a method of teaching based on experimental demenstration. And in December of 1904, she was appointed cheif assistant in the laboratory directed by her husband.

Piere Curie died two years late in April 1906. In grief of her husand, Marie spends all her time finishing the work that they started. A month later, Marie got appointed to professorship that had been left vacant on her husband's death; she became the first woman to teach at Sorbonne. Two years later, she became titular professor. After two more years, her fundamental treatise on radioactivity was published and the following year, Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize fo Chemeistry for the issolation of pure radium. Throughout World War 1- with help from Irene- Marie deticated her time to the development of the use of X- radiography. In 1921, Marie went to the U.S. with her two daughters where President Warrn G. Harding gave her a gram of radium. While in America, she gave many lectures.

Marie died on July 4, 1934- at age 67- as a result of leukemia caused by the action of radiation. Sadly, both of her daughters also died from the same disease. __Quote:__ "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuales. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we tink we can be most useful.: - Marie Slodowskia Curie

__Fun Facts about Marie Curie:__ - she worked with radium so much that she lost her fingerprints - while in America, she was suspected of being a German messanger, or spy, and was constantly under FBI srveillance.