A woman who worked tirelessly to make the world a better place.
Maria Skłodowska Curie circa 1920
The house in Warsaw where Maria Skłodowska was born.
Pierre and Marie Curie in the Lab.
A brief overview of Marie Skłodowska Curie's life
7 November 1867 - Maria Skłodowska is born in Warsaw in what was then the Russian Empire.
May 1878 - Maria's mother Bronisława dies of tuberculosis.
12 June 1883 - Maria graduates from a gymnasium for girls with a gold medal. Unfortunately, She is unable to attend university due to the fact that she is a woman.
1883 - 1891 - Maria promises to fincancially support her sister Bronisława while she studies abroad.
Late 1891 - Maria (or Marie, as she would go on to be known as in France) moves to France to continue her studies in physics, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Paris.
1893 - 1894 - Marie is awarded a degree and goes on to work in an industrial laboratory. in late 1894 she meets Pierre Curie.
26 July 1895 - Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie marry in Sceaux.
1896 - 1902 - Marie Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie start to work on radioactive elements. Their work would culminate in the discovery of Polonium and Radium.
12 September 1897 - Marie Skłodowska Curie gives birth to her first daughter Irène Curie.
December 1903 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
6 December 1904 - Marie gives birth to her second daughter Ève.
19 April 1906 - Pierre Curie is killed in a road accident. Marie is devastated by the news.
13 May 1906 - Marie is offered and accepts Pierre Curie's post of professor at the University of Paris becoming the first female professor there. She vows to make a great laboratory in honour of Pierre.
1910 - Marie succeeds in isolating radium. She goes on to define an international standard for radioactive emissions: the curie.
1911 - Marie wins her second nobel prize, this time in chemistry, for her discovery.
1914 - 1919 - Marie serves as director of the Red Cross Radiology Service in the first world war, saving countless lives with her mobile x-ray units.
1919 - 1934 - Marie fights tirelessly in her later years to research radioactivity and improve the world. She makes 2 trips to the US to raise funds for her research. She also serves on the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation with other prominent researchers such as Albert Einstein and Hendrik Lorentz.
4 July 1934 - Marie Skłodowska Curie dies aged 66 in Passy, France from aplastic anemia believed to have been caused from long-term exposure to radiation.
