Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland. It was the fifth and youngest child Bronsitwa Boguska, pianist, singer and teacher, and Vladislav Sklodowski, Professor of mathematics and physics. Marja's mother died of tuberculosis when she was 10 years old, leaving her father as a role model.
Marja was a student of the brilliant and mature with a rare gift of concentration. She dreamed of a career, it was inconceivable concept for women at that time. However, the lack of funds meant that it was forced to become a private tutor. When Maria was younger, she made a huge financial sacrifices so that her sister Bronia could serve her desire to study medicine in Paris, raising hope that benefit may be returned someday. So in the year 1891, shy Marja arrived in Paris. She began studying mathematics, chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne in 1891, and became the first woman to teach there. She passed her Physics degree with flying colors and went to earn a degree in mathematics.
It was then a Polish friend introduced Marja Pierre Curie, a young man, shy and introverted. July 26, 1895 two got married. Marja adopted the French spelling of her name (Marie) and teamed up with her husband to conduct research on radioactive substances. Marie and Pierre Curie inseparable, work side by side in the laboratory during the day and learn together in the evening. Even the arrival of their daughter, Irina, in 1897, hardly interrupted its normal. Curie discovered that uranium ore, or tar, contains much more radioactive than uranium content can only be explained. Curie started searching the source of radioactivity and in 1898, discovered two highly radioactive elements radium and polonium. Curie together for this work of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with another French physicist Antoine Henri Bacquerel who discovered natural radioactivity.
With this honor came the immediate international fame-violations of personal and professional lives of two scientists for quite some time and enough money to alleviate some of their financial burdens. (They supported Radium research with their own money). After the birth of their second daughter, Eva, in December 1904, Curie returned her husband in the laboratory. Shortly thereafter, the French Government would like to celebrate by creating a new Professor of physics at the Sorbonne for Pierre and the construction of a new laboratory for Marie Curie. But before the transaction can be completed, Pierre was killed when he stepped in the way absentmindedly horse-drawn carriages on a Paris Street.
Marie Curie, Madame or continued its work on radioactive elements, and six years after her husband's death she received a second Nobel Prize in 1911, in recognition of its isolation of pure Radium metal and the first international standard for measuring this substance.
In the late 1920 's Curie began almost constantly suffer from fatigue, dizziness, and low-grade fever. It survived the continuous humming in her ears and gradual loss of vision. Although a number of her colleagues who worked with Radium show many symptoms and others died at a relatively young age, cancer, Curie could not bring himself to admit that element which discovered she and her husband could be to blame. In the end she acknowledge that Radium was dangerous, but she continued to work with him anyway. In the early 1930 's, however, Curie care significantly deteriorated and doctors finally found the reason: macrocytic anemia caused by cumulative effects of radiation exposure.
July 4, 1934, at the age of 67 of Madame Curie died of leukemia in mountain sanitorium, where she had gone to recover. One year after her death in 1935, her elder daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work with radioactivity.
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