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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.
Early life and overcoming obstacles. Marie Curie became famous for the work she did in France. But she was. born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, as Maria Sklodowska. She was the youngest. of five children, and both of her parents were educators: Her father taught. math and physics, and her mother was headmistress of a private school. for girls. But things took a turn for the worse the year she turned 10.