A biography by Maite Bernaus

Marie Curie, an important physical and chemical, was the youngest of 5 children and was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She was brought up in a poor but well educated family. At an early age she took an interest in Chemistry and Biology but she was limited for further study in Poland.

In his mid-teens she went to Paris, where she was able to study and got a degree in Physics and later in Maths. Some years later she met and marry whit Pierre Curie, who had got a laboratory of Physics and Chemistry. In 1898, they discovered two new elements, polonium and radium.

In 1903 she won a Nobel Prize of physics and eight years later of Chemistry for the discovery of actinium and further studies on radium. So she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the fist person to win two in multiple science. Marie Curie died in 1934 from cancer due to the effects of the radiation. What I admire most about her is her desire to investigate and her strain to be one of the first women to excelled in the research camp.