MARY CURIE

Mary Curies war born as Manya Sklodoska in Warsaw, Poland in 1876. When she was 19 she began to work as a governes in the rural town of Szczuki. However five years later she enrolled in the University of Paris as Madernoisells Marie Sklodowska.

In 1893 she received have licence in sciences physiques. One year leater she joined France’s Society for the Encouragement of national Industry to study the magnetism of steels, which was when she met her husband Pierre Curie. In 1987 She began her investigation of  “becquel” rays as her doctoral thesis but it wasn’t until 1903 that she receved her doctorate in physics. During in the same year Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel shared the Novel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.

In 1906 her husband was killed and the university of Paris selected Marie Curie to succeed her husband as professor of physics, and she became the university first female professor. However France’s Academy of sciencies five years later refused to grant Curie membership because she was a woman but she received the novel prize in chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. She then dedicaited the following 23 years to the divelopment of X-ray machines. She died in her death was caused by radiation poisoning.