Part one of term paper
Marie Sklodowska Curie was one of the first woman scientists to win world-wide fame and win a Nobel prize. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her family was poor and consisted of her mother, a musician, her father, a teacher and her three older sisters and her brother. Her family took in boarders, one of which had a deadly ...

Part two of term paper
... She became the first women to study and teach at the Sorbonnen. She adopted the French spelling of her name in France and met her future husband, Pierre, a French physicist, who taught at the university of Paris. They married and teamed up to conduct research on radioactivity and found that uranium ore, or pitchblende, contained much more radioactivity than could be explained solely by the uranium content. She was the most famous woman in physics and was recognised as one of the greatest sc ...