Marie Curie

On the 7th November 1867 a teacher in physics and maths became the father of a little girl called Marya Sklodowska and nobody could know. That this girl would have been one of the most famous female scientists in the 90’s and 20’s century. At the age of 16 she finished her exam in a lycee` as the best and won a gold medal. A low in her life was when her family lost nearly the whole …

…she went to the USA where the president Warren G. Harding gave her a small piece of Radium which should be a symbolic acknowledgment and it was financed by American women. 1922 Marie became a member of the academy of medicine and searched for the use of radioactive substances for medicine. On the 4th of July 1934 Marie died in Sancellemonz because of leukaemia which is a consequence of her contact to radioactive elements over long time.