So yah, Curie.. for Curieous?! Ahaha, JK. Don't read this. ;)

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7^th, 1867. She was the daughter of a secondary school teacher. At the age of 15, her mother and sister died of different illnesses. She graduated high school with the highest honors. She seemed to have suffered depression, at the time because she was too tired to do anything. Her depression was supposedly caused by the tragic deaths of her sister and mother. Because of this, her father sent her to the countryside. She then moved to Paris, France.

While looking for a laboratory, she found her husband, Pierre Curie. Together, they studied general physics. She earned Licentiateships in Physics and Mathematical sciences and gained her Doctor of Schience degree in 1903.  She also was the professor on the School of Physics. After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place and became the new Professor of General Physics and the Faculty if Sciences. Se is the first woman who held this position. She attended the University of Paris where she was also appointed the Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute.

Because of where she stood, she had to undertake much teaching in order to earn a livelihood, even with her husband. When Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896, it inspired Curie and her husband with their analysis which led to the isolation of plutonium and radium. 

Curie developed methods for the separation of uranium from radioactive residues. In order to do this, she had to do some careful study of its properties (its therapeutic properties in particular). After further study, she promoted the use of uranium to help relive suffering. In her lifetime Curie was presented many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships. When her husband was still alive, together the Curies were awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for their. They earned half of the Nobel prize because Becquerel, who discovered uranium, was awarded the other half. Marie Curie received another Nobel Prize, in Chemistry this time in recognition of her work in radioactivity in 1911. United States President Harding presented Curie one gram of uranium in recognition of her service to science, on behalf of the women of America.

Marie Curie discovered the element radium. It changed the how scientists think about matter and energy. Also, because Curie studied intensively in the subject of uranium and uranium use, she led the way to a new era of medical knowledge and treatment of diseases.