Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie(Maria Salomea Skłodowska)

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

Born in Warsaw, in Congress Poland in the Russian Empire, on 7 November 1867.

She was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

She was the first women to win a Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie was the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes.

She was the only women who shared the Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre Curie.

Her daughter also won a Noble prize in chemistry. 

She discovered the element polonium named after her country of birth Poland.

She developed mobile radiography units.

She became the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service.

She set up France's first military radiology center, operational by late 1914.

Assisted at first by a military doctor and by her 17-year-old daughter Irène, Curie directed the installation of 20 mobile radio logical vehicles and another 200 radio logical units at field hospitals in the first year of the war.

In 1915, Curie produced hollow needles containing "radium emanation", a colorless, radioactive gas given off by radium, later identified as radon, to be used for sterilizing infected tissue.

Marie's family ran a secret school.

Marie's sister, Bronia, became a doctor – something unheard of for women then.

Marie's husband Pierre was killed when he was run over by a carriage in Paris in 1906.

Marie became good friends with fellow scientist Albert Einstein.

Her father was a math teacher. 

He died when she was 11.

Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France.

She died 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.

Which means her body wasn't making enough red blood cells.

She was fatigued and could get infections easily.

Without her we wouldn't have x-rays.

We wouldn't be able to treat Cancer patients.

We wouldn't have Nuclear plants to produce energy or nuclear reactors.

We wouldn't be able to restore sight to some of the blind.

And we wouldn't be able to sterilize medical instruments.
She is still radio active