Marie Curie

Marie Curie, born in 1867 in Warsaw, was a Polish physicist, chemist, and mathematician. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 for her work on radiation. In 1911, she won another Nobel Prize for discovering radium and polonium. Despite facing obstacles as a woman, she pursued higher education in Paris and conducted studies on radioactive substances. Sadly, she died in 1934 from radiation exposure-related illness. Maria Salomek Sklodowska, better known as Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw on 7th November 1867, died in Passy, France, on 4th July 1934. She was a Polish naturalized French physicist, chemist and mathematician. In 1903, she was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize. She received the Nobel Prize for Physics together her husband Pierre Curie and Antoine-Henri Becquerel for her study on radiation. In 1911, she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium. Marie Curie grew up in Russian Poland. Since women could not be admitted to higher education here, she moved to Paris and in 1891 began attending the Sorbonne, where she graduated in Physics and Mathematics. In December 1897, she began to carry out studies on radioactive substances. She died in France in 1934 from a plastic anemia caused by the radiation to which his body had been exposed for a long time and which he had always denied was dangerous.