Marie Sklodowska Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a physics teacher and her mother was a principal at a girls school in Warsaw. She had three sisters(Sofia, Helena, Bronislawa) and a brother Joseph.

Marie, ever since her earliest years, was interested in reading and physics since her father was a physics teacher. After finishing high school, Marie went on to Paris because of the fact that she couldn't obtain any form of a higher education in Poland. There, while living in poverty and working hard, she graduated in physics from the Sorbonne in 1893.

Marie met Pierre Curie in 1894 and married him a year after. Pierre was also a physicist who had already made some important discoveries. Since Marie was at this time looking for a topic for research for a higher degree, Pierre was in full sympathy. Due to this she chose to study radioactivity. Another reason why she chose this topic is because in 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in uranium ; Marie had reason to believe that there might be a new element in the uranium ore that Becquerel had worked

I chose to write about Marie Sklodowska Curie because throughout her life she worked towards enhancing the human society's knowledge of radioactivity. Another reason why I took it upon myself to write about her is because Marie Sklodowska Curie pioneered a field of work that was male dominated. She was also the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

Then, in 1911, came the offspring of all this hard and grueling work - a Nobel Prize along with an advanced scientific degree in France. Due to this, Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first woman to obtain a Nobel Prize for the second time. Even though the first one that she obtained was awarded to her jointly with her husband and Henri Bequerel, it was still an astounding achievement for a woman in that time.

When Marie's husband received a chair at the Sorbonne in 1904, she was asked to be a part time teacher at an all girls school in Paris. Then two years later, Pierre Curie was killed instantly when he was accidentally runover by a heavy, horse driven wagon. After this happened the Sorbonne elected Marie to fill her husband's chair. The position at the Sorbonne was where she would spend most of t

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