Marie Curie, Born in November 7 1867. She is a Nobel Price winner in the year 1911 for her discovery of Radium, Polonium, Isolating Radium, and the study of Radium Compound. She also received the Nobel Price for founding Radioactivity on the year 1903. Her dedication to science was out-standing. When she gave birth to her first daughter, Irene, she didn't stop researching about radioactivity. Then when her husband died, in her grief she still teaches at Sorbonne. As a women she also achieved many things. She is the first women who won the Nobel Price twice and in two majors , Physics and Chemistry. She is also the first women in France to become a professor and the first person who improved the use of X-Rays.Marie Curie as a mother has achieved well, for her first daughter, following her foot-steps and received a Nobel Price in the year 1935 with her husband for the new founding of the radioactive elements. Then, at her final days, she shows her devotion to science for she still carries Radium in a test tube inside her lab coat pocket. But all of those experiment on Radiation has a great impact on her body. She past away on July 4 1934, because of Aplastic Anemia.
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World Book " N.O 14",2006
http://www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538#final-days-and-legacy