Who was Marie Curie?

Marie Salomee Sklodowska Curie was a famous scientist. She was born on November 7, 1867, in Freta Street Boarding School for girls in Warsaw, Poland. She discovered polonium, radium and coined the word radioactivity. In 1903, she was the first women to win a nobel prize. She shared it with her husband pierre and another scientist in physics. In 1911 she won the nobel prize for physics for all her work on radiology. She died of Leukemia from excessive radiation on July 4, 1934.

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