Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867 and showed early promise as an intelligent student, but was unable to attend university as a woman. She moved to France where she studied science, met her future husband Pierre Curie, and together they discovered radium and polonium, winning the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. After Pierre's death in 1906, Marie continued her scientific work and became the first woman professor at the University of Paris, winning a second Nobel Prize in 1911 as the only woman to do so. She pioneered the medical use of radiation but died in 1934 from exposure to radioactivity through her research.

1. Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Polish inventor

3. Maria Skłodowska was born in
Warsaw, Poland, in 1867. Her
father taught physics and her
mother was the head teacher of
a girls' school.

5. • Maria was a very
intelligent student at
secondary school,
but she couldn't go
to university because
she was a woman. So
she worked as a
teacher and studied
secretly at the 'Flying
University' in
Warsam.

6. • Later she moved to France and
studied science at the Sorbonne,
a famous university in Paris. (In
1906, she became the first
woman to teach at the Sorbonne
when she got the job of Professor
of Physics.)

7. • At the Sorbonne she met another scientist,
Pierre Curie. They got married in 1896 and
had two children

8. • Pierre knew that
Maria was a great
scientist, so he was
happy to help her.
Together, they did a
lot of important work
on radioactivity and
discovered radium
and polonium. In
1903, they won the
Nobel Prize for
Physics.

9. • Sadly, Pierre died in a road accident in
1906, but Marie didn't stop working. in
fact, she won the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 1911. She is the only
woman to win two Nobel Prizes.

10. • She Stayed in France for the rest of her life.
She tried to use her discoveries to help people
who were ill in hospital.

12. People didn't know at that time that it was
dangerous to work with radium. Maria
became ill because of the radioactivity
and died of cancer in 1934.

13. performed
Laura Konaszewska