1. MARIE CURIE
 Considered the "Mother
of Modern Physics“.
 She is a pioneer in
research about
radioactivity.
 Discovered and isolated
polonium and
radium, and established
the nature of radiation
and beta rays.

2. MARIE CURIE
 Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, the youngest of
five children. Her father was a physics teacher, her
mother, who died when Maria was 11, was also an
educator.
 After graduating with high honors in her early
schooling, Marie Curie found herself without
options in Poland for higher education. She spent
some time as a governess, and in 1891 followed her
sister, already a gynecologist, to Paris. In
Paris, Marie Curie enrolled at the Sorbonne.
 Marie Curie graduated in first place in physics
(1893), then, on a scholarship, returned for a degree
in mathematics in which she took second place
(1894).

3. MARIE CURIE
 She had already begun to work as a researcher, and
it was through her work that she met Pierre Curie in
1894 when he was 35 years of age. They were
married on July 26, 1895.
 Their first child, Irene, was born in 1897. Marie
Curie continued work on her research began work as
a physics lecturer at a girls' school.
 Inspired by work on radioactivity in uranium by
Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie began research on
other elements. First she discovered radioactivity in
thorium, then demonstrated that the radioactivity is
not a property of an interaction between elements
but is an atomic property.