Marie Curie By Dylan

Facts about Marie Curie Life. Marie Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of teachers who believed strongly in education. She moved to Paris to continue her studies and there met Pierre Curie, who became both her husband and colleague in the field of radioactivity. The couple later shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Marie Cries family Marie curie had four kids.She had a husband called Pierre Curie he was 46 years.

What did she invent In 1898 they discovered two new elements - polonium and radium. Polonium was named after Marie's homeland, Poland. Radium got its name from the Latin word for ray. In 1906 Pierre Curie died when he was run over by a horse-drawn carriage.

Family facts Marie Curie grew up in Warsaw, Poland where she was born on November 7, 1867. Her birth name was Maria Sklodowska, but her family called her Manya. Her parents were both teachers.

When she died Curie visited Poland for the last time in early 1934. A few months later, on 4 July 1934, she died at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy, Haute-Savoie, from aplastic anemia believed to have been contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation.