Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies



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Marie Curie
You must be an exceedingly clever scientist to win a Nobel Prize in 
chemistry or physics. There is one person who won a Nobel Prize in 
both of these sciences. What’s more, she was a woman and she lived 
in an era when women were definitely not taken seriously in the world 
of science.
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Marie was born in Poland in 1867 to a family of famous teachers, and seemed set to have 
an easy life. But her mother and sister both died when she was a little girl, and her family 
lost all their money supporting Polish independence groups.
As a teenager and young adult, Marie, who was extremely intelligent, had to take 
whatever kind of work she could get in order to put herself through school. She worked 
as a governess, teaching the children of a rich family, and fell in love with their son. The 
family would not let him marry this penniless woman, and Marie was out of a job again.
She finally moved to Paris, where her sister was living, and where some of the best 
universities could be found. Marie lived in a bare attic, tutoring at night, going to 
university in the day, and barely making ends meet.
Her luck changed when she met another science student named Pierre Curie. They 
married and set up a laboratory together; they both loved science so much that they 
hardly ever left their lab.
Now Marie Curie’s brilliance had a chance to shine. She began looking at radioactivity, 
which had just been discovered, and set up innovative experiments that proved how 


radiation came from atoms. It was an enormous breakthrough, and she was still just a 
student.
In the years to come, she and her husband made more discoveries - including the 
important fact that uranium is not the only radioactive mineral. In fact, Marie Curie 
discovered a previously unknown mineral that she named “polonium” in honor of her 
native Poland.
Although women were not taken seriously in the world of science in the late 1800s, no 
one could ignore the important discoveries that Marie Curie was making. She and her 
husband shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, making her the first woman to ever 
receive this prestigious award. Then, in 1911, she won her second Nobel Prize, this one 
for Chemistry.
Marie Curie became the most famous woman scientist of all time, but all of those years 
working with radiation took their toll. She died of anemia brought on by radiation 
poisoning when she was sixty-six.
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