Overview (4)BornNovember 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]DiedJuly 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France (blood cancer)Birth NameMaria Salomea SklodowskaHeight5' 1" (1.55 m)Mini Bio (1)Maria Sklodowska-Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire as Maria Salomea Sklodowska. She was married to Pierre Curie. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France.Spouse (1)Pierre Curie(25 July 1895 - 19 April 1906) ( his death) ( 2 children)Trivia (17)She founded the Curie Institute which has headquarters in both Paris and Warsaw.She studied at the Sorbonne Institute in Paris and later became the first woman to be made a professor there.During her studies, she lived in near-poverty on a diet of tea and toast.Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.In 1898 she named the first chemical element that she discovered, "polonium", for her native country, Poland.She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win it in two fields (Physics and Chemistry).She worked in close contact with radioactive materials without proper shielding. As a result, all of her papers are too radioactive to be handled, and are kept in lead-lined boxes.In 1995, in honor of her achievements, both her and her husband's remains were moved to the Pantheon in France, which is where the great heroes of France are interred.She lost her husband in 1906 to a traffic accident.In 1911, a French newspaper, Le Journal of Paris, published an inflammatory article which alleged that Marie Curie was carrying on an affair with Paul Langevin, a married scientist. Crowds gathered outside of her window to jeer and catcall. While waiting for the affair to die down, she learned that she had just won her second Nobel Prize.Mother-in-law of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.Mother of Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie.She wrote a book during the last year of her life while she was dying of radiation poiso
