Marie Sklodowska-Curie Born: Maria Salomea Skłodowska Mother of Modern Physics Marie Sklodowska-Curie Born: Maria Salomea Skłodowska By: Rashif Brown

First woman to win a Nobel Prize Born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland Polish Physicist and Chemist Only person to win in multiple sciences First woman to win a Nobel Prize By: Rashif Brown

In Paris she met her husband Pierre Curie Pierre was Lab Chief for the Paris Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry By: Rashif Brown

Studied at Warsaw’s clandestine(secret) Floating University She earned her Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel  for the discovery of radioactivity. Marie was the first person to describe the substance Radium as radioactive due to the high amounts of radiation if gave off. To this day she coins the term radioactive. Sole winner for the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating Radium and Radium compounds. By: Rashif Brown

She named the first chemical element that she and her husband discovered, polonium, after her native country, which she first isolated in 1898. By: Rashif Brown

On April 19, 1906, when Pierre Curie slipped and fell in the street On April 19, 1906, when Pierre Curie slipped and fell in the street. His head was crushed under the wheel of a horse-drawn car. Marie took over his classes, and became the first female professor at the University of Paris By: Rashif Brown

Curie died in 1934 at the age of 67 of aplastic anemia brought on by her years of exposure to radiation. Aplastic anemia is a condition that occurs when your body stops producing enough new blood cells. Aplastic anemia leaves you feeling fatigued and at higher risk of infections and uncontrolled bleeding. By: Rashif Brown

In 1995 she became the second woman to be buried in the Panthéon, but the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris' Panthéon. By: Rashif Brown

Before her death she became the head of the Paris Institute of Radium and founded the Curie Institute. Throughout her lifetime she received 15 gold medal awards, 19 degrees, and many other honors. With her work with radioactivity, doctors have been able to treat cancer, manipulate nuclear energy, create atomic bombs, and numerous other achievements. By: Rashif Brown

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Sources: http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/mariecurie.html http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/msc.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/6343/Marie_Curie.html http://www.greatkat.com/03/madamecurie.html http://www.curiefoundation.org/mariecurie.html By: Rashif Brown