WRITING -3 MARY CURIE

Mary Curie was born as Manya Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. At first, when she was 19 years old she worked as a governess in the rural town of Szczuki (in the same country).
One year after enroll in the University of Paris she received her licence és sciences physiques, the French equivalent of a master’s degree in physics. Later she met Pierre Curie.
By the time she was 28, she married with Pierre Curie (and she changed her surname). Then, in 1897, she began her investigation of “Becquerel rays” as her doctoral thesis, and Pierre and she started working together. And after one year she announced with her husband the discovery of polonium and radium while they wanted to prepare a pure sample of radium.
At the age of 36, she recived her doctorate in physics from the University of Pans, and this year Pierre Curie, Henri Becquerel and she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
But tree years later, in 1906 Pierre killed when a horse-drawn wagon runs over him in a busy Paris street, soon, the University of Paris selected Marie Curie to succeeded her husband as professor of physics, and she became the university’s first famale professor.
Some years later the France’s Academy of Sciences refused to grant Curie membership because she was a woman. But in the same time she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.
When the 1st World War began, Curie also began setting up a network of portable and hospital-based X-ray machines to treated wounded soldiers.
At the end of World War I, in 1918, she officially opened the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.
Eventually, in 1921, she visited the United States to raised money for the Radium Institute. Finally she died of leukemia caused by radiation poisoning at the age of 67 years.