WOMEN AND SCIENCE- Marie Curie

Marie Curie.

Marie Curie was born on November 7th 1867 in Varsovia. Her father was a professor of mathematics and physics and her mother was a teacher.

She's from Poland and went to France and met Pierre Curie ; she married him  on 26th July 1895. And she even hesitated to accept his marriage proposal !

Did you know ?

She's the first woman who won a Nobel Prize of Chemistry.Marie Curie took the place of her husband because Pierre Curie died in an accident in 1906. She was the first woman to become a professor of general physics and radioactivity.

M.C and P.C  discovered Radium and Polonium, thanks to this discovery they received the Nobel Prize in 1903.

Albert Einstein was a great friend of Marie Curie, when she died, he said « Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whose fame has not been corrupted ».

From our point a view.

Marie Curie was known for her Great Science. She did lots of discoveries like radium and polonium. She is extremely famous in the whole world.

She helped women in getting jobs because she was one of the first female to have a job.

And proved to the people that women were as skilled as men. -Bella Mckenna

She was in touch with with other famous people like Abert Einstein.

Thanks to her, today there are a lot of other women who play an important role. She is important for  all women on this dayof  « Journée de la Femme »on the 8th of March 2016.

Even now that she is dead. 

byMarina Müller

The poster of « Journée de la Femme » for 8th of March 2011.

Marie Curie is the first woman who received a Nobel Prize, but what is more interesting in this woman is that she even received not one but two prizes, the first in colaboration with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and the a second alone. Today we talk about her like the most intelligent woman and now she represents the history of science. 

- by Félicia Ho-a & Plume Lefèvre.