Marie

Curie
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Versovia, Poland.
Marie Curie was a Polish-French Physicist and Chemist and was the first woman to
receive a Nobel Prize and to receive two prizes in different scientific disciplines.
When he was ten years old he began attending J. Sikorska's boarding school; Later she
attended a school for girls, from which she graduated on June 12, 1883 with a gold medal.
She collapsed, possibly due to depression, and spent a year in the countryside with her
father's relatives, and the following year with her father in Warsaw, where she gave
private lessons because it was not possible to enroll her in an institution of higher
education because she was women. Together with her sister Bronislawa, she entered the
clandestine Uniwersytet Latajacy, a higher education institution that did admit female
students.

In 1891 he left for Paris, where he changed his name to Marie. In 1891 he enrolled in the
science course at the University. After two years, he finished his physics studies.
In 1894 he met Pierre Curie. At that time, the two were working in the field of magnetism.
Marie Curie was interested in the discoveries of new types of radiation. Wilhelm
Roentgen had discovered X-rays in 1895, and in 1896 Antoine Henri Becquerel
discovered that uranium gave off similar invisible radiation. For all this he began to study
the radiation of uranium and, using the techniques invented by Pierre, he carefully
measured the radiation. When he saw that the radiation from the ore was more intense
than that of the uranium itself, he realized that there had to be unknown elements, even
more radioactive than uranium. Marie Curie was the first to use the term 'radioactive' to
describe elements that emit radiation.
Her husband finished his work on magnetism to join his wife's research, and in 1898 the
couple announced the discovery of two new elements: polonium (Marie named it after the
country of her birth) and radium. Over the next four years, the couple, working in very
precarious conditions, isolated a fraction of a gram of radium.