Marie Curie was a two-time Nobel Prize winner whose work led to the discovery of

radioactivityin 1897. Her spouse Pierre Curie both examined many different substances and

found that the mineral 'pitchblende' was more active that 'uranium'. Curie was born in Warsaw,

Poland, her parents were educators and was the youngest out of five other children. Usually

was known as "Maria Salomea Sklodowski", but when she and her elder sister, "Bronia" had

registered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, she changed her name to 'Marie' to sound more French.

Marie Curie was a French chemist and physicist.

Marie tested all of the many different chemicals to see if any would emit Becquerel rays.

Her husband, Pierre, had known …show more content…
Marie later on originated the word "radioactive" to describe the

materials had effects. And together, they both found two minerals pitchblende and chalcocite,

which were way more radioactive.

Marie Curie won the prestigious honor with her husband, Pierre, and for their work on

radioactivity. Marie had made history in the year of 1903, she also had become the first ever

woman to receive a Nobel Prize in the subjectof physics. And wiith the money from the Nobel

Prize win, both Marie and Pierre developed an international reputation for each of their scientific

efforts. For the discovery of radioactivity, you could say the Curies had become "celebrity

famous" in the scientific world.

Marie Curie was selected for her discovery of the radium and polonium, and had become

one of the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the world. Later on Marie Curie had received

yet another great honor in 1911, she had won a second Nobel Prize, but in the subject

chemistry. And while she received the Nobel prize alone, Marie Curie had shared her winnings

with her late husband. She partnered with other famous scientist, such as, Albert Einstein