She was born in Warsaw ( Poland ) in 1867 and
became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize .
She was famous for her work on radioactivity.
Her parents were both teachers and
she was the youngest of five children.
She had a bright and curious mind and excelled at school.
She went to Paris in 1891.
She completed her master´s degree in Physics in 1893
and in Mathematics the following year.
She met Pierre Curie,Professor in the School of Physics,
in 1894 and they were married .
In 1911 she recieved a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in recognition of her work in radioactivity.
She died in Savoy ( France) after a short illness in 1934
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