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
Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich Teaching Abroad (AEFE), in Paris. The Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich (LFZ) offers education from kindergarten (< 3 y.o.) to the baccalaureate exams, the official diploma accredited by the French minister of National Education. It is recognised for accessing institutes of higher education in France and in Europe as well as gaining a university education in Switzerland, on the basis of a successful French Baccalaureat, but not on the basis of a Swiss Matura. 3 series of General Baccalaureat: and possibility to choose a European Baccalaureat. The Lycée Français Marie Curie de Zurich (LFZ) is an establishment in Switzerland