Marie Curie by Pauline

Marie Curie is a French woman of Polish origin who has marked story !

Marie Curie

She was born in 1867 in Warsaw . 

She settled in France because she wanted to study radioactivity in a top university in Paris .

She was fascinated by metals and diamonds and she discovered that certain minerals were radioactive . To analyze their properties, she melted and filtered them .

Very intrigued by her tests , Pierre, her husband , gave up his work to meet her .

They discovered two new radioactive elements : Polonium and Radium .

She received two Nobel Prizes which gave her a lot of money . 

She would have kept money to herself but she chose to invest it for the people . She was extremely generous.

“ in the life, nothing is to be afraid of , all needs to be understood “

Vocabulary :

Melted them = les faire fondre 

Filtered them = les filtrer