By Oisin Mc Gowan And Morgan Pender

Her life cycle

Full name : Marie Curie, ne Sklodowska
Born: 7 November 1867, Warsaw, Russian

Empire (now Poland)

Died: 4 July 1934, Sallanches, France She died at the age of 67

Award
Marie curie was given the noble prize at orbonne

University, Paris, France in 1903

She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her

husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
She won her prize for her study on radioactivity

Prize motivation
In recognition of her services to the advancement of

chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"

Discovered Polonium and Radium

The 1897 discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel

inspired Marie and Pierre Curie to investigate further this phenomenon. They found that the mineral pitchblende was more active than uranium and concluded that it must contain other radioactive substances. They managed to extract two previously unknown elements: polonium and radium, both of them more radioactive than uranium.

Facts
Marie Curie's research papers are still highly

radioactive to this day. To access them, you must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing. Marie became the Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne after her husband died. She was the first woman to hold this position. Her first daughter, Irene, won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with aluminum and radiation. Marie became good friends with fellow scientist Albert Einstein.

Thanks and Goodluck