Marie Curie, biography and major achievements

<Tab/>Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was renown for her work with radioactivity, the work that eventually ended her life. She was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland on November 7th, 1867 and began her education early. She graduated from secondary school at sixteen, but due to poor investments made by her family had to post pone her own education, working instead. At eighteen she …

…its chemical properties, becoming the first person to ever receive two Nobel Prizes. She died at 67 in 1934 from leukemia, as a result of her years of exposure to high levels of radiation. <Tab/>Marie Curie is one of the most notable scientists in the history of radioactivity and chemistry. Her achievements were unprecedented, her accomplishments were innumerable, and her life was a model for all other scientists who follow after her.