MARIE CURIE DISCOVERED RADIUM FOR CURING CANCER BORN 1867 NOVEMBER 7
MARIE CURIE DISCOVERED RADIUM FOR CURING CANCER BORN 1867 NOVEMBER 7 Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize . Synopsis Born Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, 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). Curie's efforts, with her husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the further development of X-rays. She died on July 4, 1934. Early Life Maria Sklodowska, better known as Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw in modern-day Poland on November 7, 1867. Her parents were both teachers, and she was the youngest of five children, following siblings Zosia, Józef, Bronya and Hela. As a child Curie took after her father, Wladyslaw, a math and physics instructor. She had a bright and curious mind and excelled at schoo...