Who Was Marie Curie?

Born in Warsaw,Polandon November 71867Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsawso she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curieand the two soon marriedforming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in SavoyFranceon July 41934a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.