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Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867.
* She studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
* In 1895, she married Pierre Curie, a French physicist.
* Together, they discovered the elements polonium and radium.
* Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
* She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
* Marie Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anemia, a blood disease caused by exposure to radiation.
* She is considered one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.