Maria Sklodowksa was born in Warsaw in 1867 and received her first lessons in physics and chemistry from her father. Both parents were well-known teachers and encouraged education. Back then advanced study was not possible for women in Poland. So Maria moved to Paris, where she studied at Sorbonne. Here she also met her husband Pierre Curie. Together, they discovered polonium and radium. They received a Nobel Prize in Physics. She received the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She gave the beginning to the world’s first research for treatment of neoplasms and founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw, which remain major medical research centers. She died from exposure to the radium that made her famous.
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