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Maria Sklodowska-Curie

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M. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes.

Marie Curie (Marie Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867.

Her father taught mathematics and physics. He was a director of Warsaw gymnasia for boys.

Her mother operated a Warsaw boarding school for girls. She died when Maria was 11.

In 1883 M. Curie graduated from a gymnasium for girls.

In 1891 she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne.

In 1894 Maria met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics. In 1895 they were married.

M. Curie succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903.

M. Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics , "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

On 19 April 1906 Pierre was killed in a street accident.

After P. Curie's death Maria took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris.

In 1911 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded M. Curie the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for discovery of 2 new elements, polonium and radium).

During World War I, Curie pushed for the use of mobile radiography units, which came to be popularly known as "Little Curies", for the treatment of wounded soldiers.

M. Curie did much to establish a radioactivity laboratory in her native city . In 1932 she founded a Radium Institute in her own town, Warsaw.

Mme. Curie died in Savoy, France, after a short illness, on July 4, 1934.