Marie Curie - Facts About Her Life

• Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist.
• She born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland and died on 4 July 1934 (aged 66) in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France.
• She had citizenship of Poland by birth and of France after marriage.
• She is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. 
• She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
• She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.
• She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw, Poland.
• She shared her 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• She had discovered two elements, polonium and radium.
• She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. 
• Marie Curie died of leukemia brought on by her prolonged exposure to radioactivity. The notebooks she used are still radioactive.
• Marie Curie received a total of 19 degrees.
• Marie Curie received her doctor of Science in 1903.
• Maria made an agreement with her sister, Bronisława, that she would give her financial assistance during Bronisława's medical studies in Paris, in exchange for similar assistance two years later.
• In late 1891 she left Poland for France.
• Because of their levels of radioactivity, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle.
• In August 1922, Marie Curie became a member of the newly created International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations.
•  In 1923, she wrote a biography of Pierre, entitled Pierre Curie.
• In 1912, the Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw, but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute, to be completed in August 1914 and a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie.