Made for eTwinning project STEM Days - International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th February 2020). 2019/2020

1. Marie Curie
Sklodowska
Jana Stanivuković,Lara
Šimičić,Lana Veble,2.g

2. Biography
 Polisch chemist and physicist, born in 1867
 At the age of 24 she went to study in Paris
 She graduated (1893) and received her PhD (1939 and worked
as first professor since 1906
 The first women to win the Noble Prize, the first female
member of Academy of Medicine in Paris and the first director
of The Radium Institute in Paris
 During WWI, she advocated the use of mobile radiography in
the treatment of wounded soldiers
 After the war began, she cashed in on her and her husband's
Nobel Prize for the war effort
 She died in 1934 from leukemia

3. Achievements
 Discovered and researched radioactivity
 Received Nobel Prize in Physics and
Chemistry
 Another rdioactive element that she
discovered got called polonium in honor of
her homeland
 In honer of her and her husband the unit of
measurement of the radioactive source was
named kiri; chemical element kiri, radioactive
mineral kirit
 There is planetoid called after Curie-
Sklodovsky and radioactive mineral