I chose to carry out my project on Marie Curie, the woman who discovered radium and polonium. She was born Mary Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland and died on July 4, 1934 in Passy, ​​France at the age of 67. In 1895, Marie married a professor named Pierre Curie at the age of 26. She was the first woman to complete a doctorate in France in MMMM at the age of xxx. And in MMMMM, Curie was also the first female professor at the Sorbonne. He was the first person to use the term "radioactivity", which is the term still used to this day. Marie Curie was born the youngest of five children to parents who were both teachers, Marie was driven to excel. An excellent secondary school student, she could not attend an all-male university. Since it was illegal for girls to attend school at the time, she attended an underground night school with her sisters. He continued his studies at the “Floating University”: clandestine Warsaw classes were held in secret. Because they were poor, neither Marie Curie nor her sister could afford to pay for school. They made a pact that Marie would work first and her sister would go to school. Once her sister finished and was able to do so, she would help Marie attend school. Marie Curie was a tutor and housekeeper for five years to earn money, support her sister and pay for her education. He eventually went to Paris in 1891 and enrolled at the Sorbonne. She was so involved in her studies and this affected her health and she got sick from spending all her time on studies. He had very little money, only enough to pay for buttered bread and tea, and his health also suffered due to his poor diet. Curie went on to earn a degree in physics in 1893, and another degree in mathematics a year... halfway through her thesis... long exposed to radiation. Building on all of her work, Marie Curie made many groundbreaking discoveries throughout her life. She is the most famous scientist who ever lived and has received many posthumous honors. In 1995 she and her husband were buried in the Pantheon in Paris, the final resting place of Frances' great minds. She was the first and only woman to be buried in the Pantheon. Curie passed her love of science on to the next generation. Her daughter Irene followed in her mother's footsteps by winning the Nobel Prize in 1935. She shared the Nobel Prize with her husband for their work on the synthesis of new radioactive elements. Today several educational and research institutions and medical centers are honored with the Curie name. , including the Curie Institute and the Pierre and Marie Curie University both based in Paris.