MARIE CURIE'S LIFE

Marie Stokowski Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867. 1) ............................. . She worked on radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize twice. She became a professor at the University of Paris. Her mother, Bronislawa Stokowski was the manager of a school and her father, Wladislaw Stokowski was a math and physics teacher at Warsaw High School. She had three sisters. Their names were Sofia, Hela and Bronya. 2) ............................. . After she graduated, she helped Marie with her education.

Marie went to Paris and studied physics and math there. Then she came back to Warsaw and continued her practical scientific training. When she was 24, 3) ............................. . She met her French husband there. In 1894, she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband and with physicist Henry Becquerel. In 1911, 4) ............................. . She got very happy, but didn’t stop researching. She developed the theory of radioactivity. She received many more awards in science and medicine. She died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in France. She died of a serious disease. 5) ............................. .