BIOGRAPHY OF MARIE CURIE

Name: Marie Sklodowska

Date of birth: 7 of November of 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.

Early life: Her parents were both teachers, and she was the youngest of five children. When she was a child, Curie took after her father (a math and physics instructor).

Major discovery: She discovered that the rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium. Curie coined the Word radioactivity to describe the phenomena.

Date of death: 4 of July of 1934from  leukaemia , caused by exposure to high-energy radiation form her reseasch.

Because is important?

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry).

Quotes of Curie:

-“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”

-“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

Written by Lidia Figueras