Marie Curie

In honour of National Women's Day we will be talking about Polish-French physicist, and chemist Marie Curie (if she were alive today she'd be 149). Marie Curie was born November 7th, 1867, and died July 4th, 1934. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize! She also discovered radium, and polonium. She was born in Warsaw (part of Russia at the time), moving towards France, to further her education, where she would meet her future husband. She discovered new elements in her research, helping to progress X-Rays, something that would be impossible if she hadn't discovered radium, and polonium. For her accomplishments, she would receive the Nobel Prize. Also being helpful during World War I, giving radon to soldiers with infected tissues. Overall, if it weren't for Marie Curie, and her accomplishments, the world would not be the same.