Marie CURIE - Scientist 

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. The daughter of a math teacher and a schoolteacher, she studied brilliantly. But the higher level is forbidden to girls. She clandestinely follows the courses of the Flying University. She left Poland for France. In 1893 and 1894, she obtained degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1895, she married the physicist Pierre Curie with whom she had two daughters. At the same time, she began research on the properties of steel. In 1897, she began her thesis on the study of radiation produced by uranium.
Fascinated by the work of Wilhelm Röntgen on X-rays and Henri Becquerel on the natural radiation of uranium, she decided to study the properties of uranium rays. Using tools developed by her husband, she carried out a titanic task in a makeshift laboratory on a uranium-rich ore, Penchblende, from which she extracted ton after ton of radioactive elements.