Writing – Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)

Marie Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, was known as Marie Curie, was born on

November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a pioneering physicist,
mathematician and chemist in the field of radioactivity, her discoveries were
used by the society. Marie was not only the first woman, but the first person
to receive two Nobel Prizes in different specialties: Physics (1903) and
Chemistry (1911), and the first woman to teach at the University of Paris.
Marie married the scientist Pierre Curie and was the mother of Irène Joliot-
Curie, who later also received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Marie and Pierre suspected that there was another radioactive substance
more powerful than uranium and thorium, and in 1898 they publicly announced
that they had discovered a new element: polonium. A few months later they
announced their new find: radium.