Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw in 1867.Pierre Curie was born in
Paris in 1859.Marie and Pierre Curie
got married in 1895.Now known by the French name Marie, she worked hard in a laboratory that was owned by Pierre
Curie.He received
his early education at
home and then joined
the Faculty of Sciences
at the Sorbonne.Their studies of
radioactive substances
were carried out under
difficult conditions.Their laboratory facilities
were hardly adequate
and they had to do a lot
of teaching to earn a
living.In 1898, the couple discovered the elements Polonium and Radium.She was the daughter of a secondary-school teacher.