Marie Curie them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered in 1898 "polonium", after her native country. Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, in Congress Poland in the Russian Empire, on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława, "née" Boguska, and Władysław Skłodowski. The elder siblings of Maria
Katrin Meissner (scientist) Katrin Meissner (scientist) Katrin Meissner is a German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist. Meissner completed an engineering degree at the Ecole Centrale de Lille in 1995, a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France in 1996, and a Doctor of Physics (PhD) at the Universität Bremen, Germany in 1999. In 2000, she received the Annette Barthelt Prize for outstanding research in the field of marine science. Meissner became an Assistant Professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Canada, in 2002. In 2009, she moved to the University