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Marie Curie
Marie Curie (born Marya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She completed high school with honors, but because Poland was under Russian control, she could not attend college. So she took classes secretly, and became very interested in chemistry. She became a private tutor in order to earn enough money to go to Paris to study mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Sorbonne. She studied hard, and after three years, became the first woman to earn a master’s degree in physics. She continued to study, and collected another degree, this time in mathematics. In 1895, she married another physicist/chemist, Pierre Curie. She and her husband worked extensively with radioactive materials. Marie worked with X-rays, and discovered radium and polonium. Although she had two daughters, she never stopped her scientific research. In 1897, she began studying for her Ph.D. She, her husband, and another Frenchmen, Henri Becquerel, tested the effects of radioactivity, and in 1903, won a Nobel prize in physics for their work. Her husband, Pierre, became weakened from radiation poising, and overworked himself. He died when he was run over by a car in 1906. Marie, with the help of one of her daughters, continued her work in radioactive materials. She dissevered a way to determine the level of radioactivity. In 1911, she was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry. She and her daughter went on to research medical applications of radioactivity. In 1934, Marie died of leukemia, believed to have been caused by overexposure to radiation.
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