| ab irato in English | ab irato in French | ab irato in Spanish | ab irato in Dutch | ab irato in Portuguese | ab irato in German | ab irato in Russian | ab irato in Japanese | ab irato in Greek | ab irato in Turkish | ab irato in Hebrew | ab irato in Arabic | ab irato in Danish | ab irato in Swedish.
Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy.
Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists that ever lived. Her contributions such as the discovery of Radium and other key elements help us out every day, especially when getting an x-ray. Manya,as she was called, was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Maria was only eight when her oldest sister caught typhus and died. That death was followed less than three years later by the death of her mother, Madame Sklodowska, who lost a five-year battle with tuberculosis at the age of 42.