Her Notebooks Are Still Radioactive #historyfacts #shorts #science

Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland, she faced numerous obstacles as a woman pursuing science in the late 19th century. She moved to Paris in 1891 and studied at the Sorbonne, living in poverty while dedicating herself to her studies.

In 1895, she married French physicist Pierre Curie. Together, they began groundbreaking research on radioactivity (a term she coined). In 1898, they discovered two new elements: polonium (named after her homeland Poland) and radium.

In 1903, Marie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize when she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their research on radiation. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium, becoming the first person (and still the only woman) to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
During World War I, she developed mobile X-ray units called "petites Curies" (little Curies) to help field hospitals, saving countless soldiers' lives. She personally drove these units to the front lines.

Her prolonged exposure to radiation took a fatal toll. She died in 1934 from aplastic anemia, almost certainly caused by her decades of work with radioactive materials. At the time, the dangers of radiation were not understood, and she carried test tubes of radium in her pockets and stored them in her desk drawers.

Her legacy endures: her notebooks and personal effects remain too radioactive to handle safely today and are stored in lead-lined boxes. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making them the only mother-daughter pair to both win Nobel Prizes.

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