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Marie Curie: A Chronology of Her Life and Achievements
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by Dolores Gende
Parish Episcopal School
Dallas, Texas
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Curie is born as Manya Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland.
1886
Begins work as a governess in the rural town of Szczuki, Poland.
1891
Enrolls in the University of Paris as Mademoiselle Marie Sklodowska.
1893
Receives her licence és sciences physiques, the French equivalent of a master's degree in physics.
1894
Employed by France's Society for the Encouragement of National Industry to study the magnetism of steels; receives her degree in mathematics and meets Pierre Curie.
1895
Marries Pierre Curie.
1897
Begins her investigation of "Becquerel rays" as her doctoral thesis; Pierre joins in her work.
1898
Announces with her husband the discovery of polonium and radium; begins her four-year effort to prepare a pure sample of radium.
1903
Receives her doctorate in physics from the University of Pans; Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel share the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
1906
Pierre is killed when a horse-drawn wagon runs over him in a busy Paris street; the University of Paris selects Marie Curie to succeed her husband as professor of physics, and she becomes the university's first female professor.
1911
France's Academy of Sciences refuses to grant Curie membership because she is a woman; she receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium; she is accused of having a romantic affair with Paul Langevin, a married colleague.
1914
World War I begins; Curie begins setting up a network of portable and hospital-based X-ray machines to treat wounded soldiers.
1918
World War I ends; Curie officially opens the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.
1921
Makes her first visit to the United States to raise money for the Radium Institute.
1934
Curie's older daughter, Iréne, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot, discover artificial radioactivity; Curie dies of leukemia caused by radiation poisoning.
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