Mary Curie

MARY CURIE
Mary Curie was born as Manya Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. At first, she began working as a governess in the rural town of Szczuki, in Poland.
Then, she enrolled in the University of Paris as Mademoiselle Marie Sklodowska.
Soon, she received her “licence és sciences physiques”, the French equivalent of a master's degree in physics.
One year later she went to the French's Society for the Encouragement of National Industry of study the magnetism of steels and met Pierre Curie.
After that, she married him.
Later, she began her investigation of “Becquerel rays” as the doctorate thesis.
Pierre joined her work. One year later, she announced, with her husband, the discovery of polonium and radium, began her four-year effort to prepare a pure sample of radium.
In 1903, Mary received her doctorate physics from the University of Paris, then, Mary, Pierre Curie and Henri Bacquerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
Soon, Pierre was killed when a horse-drawn wagon ran over him in a busy Paris street and after that, the University of Paris selected Mary Curie to succeed her husband as professor of physics and she became the university's first female professor.
Next, France Academy of Sciences refused to grant Curie membership because she was a woman, but in the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.
As soon as the world war I ended, Curie oficially opened the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. Then, she visited the United States to raise money for the Radium Institute. Finally, in 1934 she died of leukemia caused by radiation poisoning.