Marie Curie for Kids: Her Life and Scientific Discoveries
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1859 g Pierre Curie is born on May 15 1867 g Marie Curie is born on November 7 1876 g Marie’s oldest sister Zosia dies from typhus 1878 g Marie’s mother Bronisława dies from tuberculosis 1884 90 g Marie works as a governess 1891 g Marie moves to Paris to attend the Sorbonne 1894 g Marie meets Pierre 1895 g Pierre and Marie get married 1897 g Irène Curie is born 1898 g Marie discovers polonium and later radium g Marie and Pierre begin working to isolate uranium salts 1903 g Marie earns her doctorate g Marie and Pierre share the Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel 1904 g Ève Curie is born 1906 g Pierre Curie is killed in a street accident g Marie becomes the first female professor with a chair position at the Sorbonne 1911 g Marie wins her second Nobel Prize this time in Chemistry TIME LINE vi
1912 g Construction on the Radium Institute begins 1914 g The Radium Institute is completed and World War I begins 1915 18 g Marie organizes and operates mobile radiology units during World War I 1921 g Marie and her daughters visit the United States to receive a gift of radium 1926 g Irène marries Frédéric Joliot 1929 g Marie visits the United States to receive a monetary gift to buy radium for a Polish radium treatment and research facility 1932 g The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute officially opens in Warsaw Poland 1934 g Irène and Frédéric discover artificial radioactivity g Marie dies of pernicious anemia in the French Alps on July 4 1935 g Irène and Frédéric win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artificial radioactivity 1995 g Marie and Pierre are reburied at the Panthéon in Paris vii vii
