THE LIFE OF MARIE CURIE

EARLY LIFE

• Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867.
• Curie was very intelligent and excelled in school.
• She was rejected from the boys-only University of Warsaw.
• Curie finally made it to Paris to study at the Sorbonne.
• Curie completed her master's degree in physics in 1893.

FAMILY LIFE

• Marie was introduced to French physicist Pierre Curie.
• A romance developed between them and they researched together.
• They were married in Seine on July 26, 1895.
• Pierre and Marie Curie had two daughters named Irene and Eve.
• The children's grandfather watched them while their parents worked.

5 MUST KNOW FACTS

• Marie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize.
• She was the first female professor at the University of Paris.
• She named the first chemical element that she discovered – polonium, after her native country.
• Marie coined the term "radioactivity" in her theory of radioactivity.
• Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms.

AWARDS

• Nobel Prize in Physics and Davy Medal in 1903
• Matteucci Medal in 1904
• Actonian Prize in 1907
• Elliott Cresson Medal in 1909
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911

FAMOUS QUOTES

• Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood.
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
• I have frequently been asked how I could reconcile family life with my career. It hasn't been easy.
• I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
• All my life through, the new sights of nature make me rejoice like a child.

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