Her grandfather, Józef Sktodowski, it was a respectable teacher in Lublin. Marie’s father called Ladislaw Sklodowski was a maths and physicist teacher, after he worked as a principal of a gym for children.
Her mother worked in an important women school in Varsovia, but she had an illness.
Then Marie went to a women secondary school, where she graduated on 12th June of 1883. She spent her next year on the country with her family, and then she and her father went to Varsovia and they lifted there. They receive some particular lessons there. She was the best, at the secondary school, in her class, and she stand out because of the energy and the help she gave to her classmates.
Marie knew four languages: Polish, Russian, German and French.
When she was fifteen she graduated from secondary school and she went to París, Sorbona, for her studies about physic on 1891.
When she grew up, she became a physicist and she was the first of study the radioactivity because she was who started to use radioactivity. Marie married Pierre, another physicist like her, and they had two daughters called Irene and Eve. They lifted together in France but her husband had an accident and he died in 1906.
During the World War I, she and her daughter assisted the casualty with their remedial work of radium.
She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of important societies around the world.
With her husband, she received an award of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903, because of the discovered spontaneous radiation. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize She received another Nobel, this time in chemistry and she also received a Davy medal of the Royal Society with her husband in 1903, and finally the president of the United States presented her with a gram of radium purchased with a collection taken up among American Women.
Bronislawa, her sister, opened the Radium Institute of Warsaw in Poland and she took the directorship.
On 1922 she joined the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations and she was the vice-president.
Marie Curie died at the age of 67 in 1934 of leukemia, because her expose to high levels of radiation. Her remains are in the Pantheon of París. She was the first woman to be honored in this way. After her death the Radium Institute was called the Curie Institute.
