Madame+Marie+Curie;

Basile; Eastman; Johnson;

Name: Madame Marie Curie Birth: November 7, 1867 Death: July 4, 1934 Country of Origin: Warsaw, Poland Marie Curie was born November 7th, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her mother was a school teacher and she later married Pierre Curie in 1895. He was a teacher. As she grew older the both of them worked with chemicals and radioactivity. In 1898 they announced their discoverment of a new element, polonium and later that year they discovered radium. Because of this they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. Pierre died in 1906 due to a freak accident so Marie kept on with the work. She became the first woman to teach at Sorbonne. She later received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. Because of her work she was a crucial part of the development of x-rays in surgery. Unfortunately in those days she was never given the proper respect or credit for her work because she was a female. She is one of the most important scientists in the history of science. She finally died July 4, 1934 due to all the radiation exposure she endured during her research.
 * Date of Discovery: June 1898**