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Marie Curie’s Life

Maria  Sklodowska was born Warsaw in 1867.Her father and mother were both teachers. They had 4 other children, all of them older than Marya. She had a brother named Jozef and 3 sisters, Zofia, Bronia and Helena.

At the time Marie lived, University was no option for women.  But Marie’s goal was to get a teacher diploma and return to Poland. She finished high school at 15 with the highest honours.

She worked as a private tutor for children before moving to Paris in 1891, to study mathematics and physics at Sorbonne. That was when she became to be called Marie.

However, she did not return to Poland.  She knew she’d stay in France when she met French scientist Pierre Curie.  She married him in 1985, and they had to daughters, Irene and Eve. They worked together with very good result.  However, their most famous discovery was made by Marie Curie alone. It was that of Radium and Polonium, being the last one named after her native country.

Due to the high exposition to radiation she suffered, she’d pay a high price. She died of aplastic anemia in 1934.

By Pablo López and David Peña