A great scientist

Personally I admire Marie Curie, she was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw was the daughter of Władysław Skłodowski, professor of physics and mathematics at Lyceum, and Bronisława Boguska, who was a teacher, pianist and singer.

Because in Poland women were forbidden to study at the University, she moved to France where she studied at the Sorbonne University, she was named the best of her class in physics.

In 1895 Marie married Pierre Curie and together they worked in a laboratory.  They discovered was that radiation was not the product of chemical reactions, in 1898 after several years of Work discovered two new chemical elements, polonium and radium, by both discoveries Marie won the novel prize of physics and chemistry.

In 1906 Pierre Curie dies, but even so Marie went ahead and was the first woman to give a lecture at the University of Soborna.  Marie Curie died in 1934 due to aplastic anemia.

What I admire about Marie is that despite the difficulties that a woman had at the time to develop an academic life, she managed to highlight and demonstrate that a woman is as capable as a man to achieve anything.