Manya Sklodowsca was born  in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. When she was 19 she began work as a governess in the rural town of Szczuki, Poland. Five years later she enrolled in the University of Paris with the name of Mademoiselle Marie Sklowsca. In 1893 she received her " licence es sciencies physiques", the French alike of a master's degree physics. She spend year studing the magnesium of steals.This year was good for her because she met Pierre Curie, a man that one year later would be her husband. Soon, they began, together, her investigation of " Bequerel rays" as her doctoral thesis.They hadn't to wait a lot because, in 1898, they announced the discovery of polonium and radium.

With the new century and three years later she received the doctorate of physics froom the University of Paris.Then, the couple and Henri Bequerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.

After a terrible accident killed Pierre when a horse-drawn wagon ran over him in a busy Paris street. As a result she was selected, for the University of Paris to succed her husband as a professor of physics.From this moment she became the university's first female professor.

In 1911 we can see an example of discriimination,France's Academy of Sciences refused to grant Curie membership because she was a woman, but this year, she won the the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. And as in all things, after a good thing comes a bad one, became as the world war I. With the situation she begun setting up a network of portable and hospital-based x-ray machines to treat wounded soldiers.After 4 years, the peace arrived with Curie's inauguration of the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.Then she visited the United States to raise money for the Radium Institut. In 1934 she died of leukemia caused by  radiation poisoning.