THE

Marie
InGENIOUS

Curie
NOV 7,
1867

1883
Marie leaves Warsaw and moves to Paris to work in

1891
Lippmann's research laboratory. She then met Pierre
Currie (her future husband and lab partner). Marie hy-
pothesized that certain materials possessed high radi-
oactivity because of other elements present. This
drove her to test out her theory by isolating such ele-
ments.
 In 1895, using an electrometer that her husband Pierre

1895
and his brother had invented, Marie measured the rays
emitted from uranium and thorium in mineral samples.
Marie eventually discovered the strength of radiation
emitted from a sample only depended on the amount of
the element in the sample.

JUN 1, Marie and Pierre discovered polonium and radium. Henri Bec-
querel had recently discovered radiation in uranium, and Marie
dedicated her research to the isolation of elements to better un-
derstand radioactivity and its uses. Previously it was believed

1898
that the atom was the smallest particle, but the theory of radio-
activity proved that atoms could decompose, emitting subatom-
ic particles as it decays.

1899
.
1903
1910

1911
Marie won her second Nobel Prize,
this one in Chemistry, for the
discovery of polonium and radium.
1914
1922
JUL 4,
1934