Madame Curie

Marya was born in Warsaw in Poland 1867. Her mother was the head of a girls' school and her father was a teacher in a boys' school. They were very fine people. 

At the ago of ten she lost her mother. She was much grieved. She an intelligent girl. She taught children in their homes. She felt happy because she could add to the family's income.

Marya studied in the Floating University. This was a young people's group to study university subjects secretly. In different places and at different times a few met add discussed at a time.

Marya worked as a governess to a little girl of ten for some time. It was a hard life. Soon she left the job and came back to live with her father in Warsaw. She again became a student in the Floating University. She had been secretly doing experiments in science. Then she went to Paris and became a student of the French University.

Marie lived in a small room at the top a building. All day and till late at night she studied French and science. She worked in the laboratory too. She came in the contact with a fellow scientist, Pierre Curie. In the year 1895, they were married.

In the laboratory Marie was making one of the most important discovered that there was something in nature which gave out radio-activity. To this, they gave in the name radium.

A secret of nature was discovered. Fame came to the Curies. In 1902, the Curies received Nobel Prize in Physics. It was great honour indeed.

On April 19, 1906 Pierre Curie died in a road accident. It was a great blow to Marie Curie. But her life went on. She received another Nobel Prize in 1911. Marie was a wonderful woman. All the time she busy in her work. She breathed her last on July 4, 1934.