Maire Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was born on November 7 1867.  She lived in Poland with her brother and sisters.

It was a hard time for Poland because Poland was under the control of Russia. Time went on and Marie Curies’ mother died when she was just 10, so she had a very hard time with her jobs.

Her dream was to study again but although she did not have the money, it took 6 whole years to get all the money she needed to go to France. She could not take the university in Poland because it was only for men and boys. By the time she was there she worked hard to get her french                                  students visa application.

Marie was a scientist,  she worked with a man called Pierre Curie who helped her with her experiment and fell in love with her, they got married. The next year and they had two children called Irene Joliot-Curie and Eve Curie.

Marie and Pierre Curie worked in a small laboratory and did more research in radioactivity  and found a strange small thing called radium an element.

Marie Curie died on the 4th of July 1934 and Pierre Curie died on the 9th of July 1934.

By: KC