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Maria Salomea Skłodowska, or Marie Salomea Skłodowska, was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw (Or congress Poland of the Russian Empire). She learned mathematics and physics from her grandfather, Władysław Skłodowski, who taught at the school she attended. After the Russian Empire banned laboratory works, he brought the equipment home and taught the children, Marie being one of them. Marie and her sister Bronisława enrolled in Flying University, one that allowed women to attend. While attending the University she studied on her own, tutored, and began her scientific training in physics at the Museum of Industry and Agriculture chemical laboratory. In 1891 Marie left for Paris, France, in hopes of advancing her degree, which she did by earning a degree in physics at the University of Paris. She continued tutoring at nights while attending school during the day, finally landing a job in the industrial laboratory of Professor Gabriel Lippmann. It was here where she started focusing her research toward magnetic fields and met her husband to be Pierre Curie. A time afterwards Marie strived for her PhD, but needed a thesis. Using her husband's own design, the electrometer, Marie began investigating potential uranium rays. Using this she, with the help of her husband, in the year 1898 they discovered a new element named polonium after her homeland Poland. In the same year, they would publish another paper claiming to have discovered another element, Radium. She received the Noble Prize in 1903 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, becoming the first woman to have received a Noble prize. Then in 1911, she was honored with a second Noble Prize in Chemistry; though on the same year she was accused of having an affair with one of her husband's students, a controversy fueled by her opponents. She went into hidlingwith her two daughters out of fear after being label a 'Jewish-Home Wrecker". A few years later in 1914 she was appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, following her research in radioactivity waves and X-rays. IN WW she became the Red Cross Director of Radiology services and establish the first military's radiology center in France. In 4 July 1934, she died in Passy, Haute-Savoie from aplastic anaemia; thought to be from her exposure to radiation.