Maria Kyuri scientist-experimenter the physicist the chemist the

Maria Kyuri scientist-experimenter, the physicist, the chemist, the teacher, the public figure. Twice Nobel prize winner: on the physicist (1903) and chemistry (1911). Has based institutes Kyuri in Paris and in Warsaw. MARIA KYURI

MARIA SKLODOVSKAYA WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER, 7 TH, 1867 IN WARSAW Its mother was director of a grammar school and the teacher of physics. Been ill with a tuberculosis, it has died, when Maria - the younger daughter in family Sklodovskikh - there were 11 years. The girl, despite of poverty of family, studied excellent, as well as its brothers and sisters. Father Maria was friend D. I. Mendeleyev, and when has seen how the girl works in laboratory, has told, that it, indoubtedly, will reach greater heights in a science.

5 YEARS MARIA LIVED IN DEAF VILLAGE AND SENT THE EARNINGS TO THE SISTER, AND ITSELF ALL FREE TIME PORED OVER TEXTBOOKS. MOST OF ALL IT INVOLVED THE PHYSICIST AND THE MATHEMATICIAN. HAVING SAVED UP IT IS ENOUGH, MONEY THE GIRL ALL THE SAME COULD GO TO PARIS MARIA HAS ACTED IN SORBONA

IN THE SPRING OF 1894 IT HAS GOT ACQUAINTED WITH PIERRE KYURI. IT WAS THEIR BEGINNING SCIENTIFIC AND A MATRIMONY.

MARIA AND PIERRE HAVE OPENED ABSOLUTELY NEW TWO CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN JUNE, 1903 MARIA PRESENTED THESIS FOR A DOCTOR'S DEGREE « RESEARCHES OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES » . MARIA AND PIERRE KYURI ALREADY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF FAMILY IMPROVED. AT KYURI THERE WAS A SECOND DAUGHTER.

BUT IN 1906 PIERRE, HAVING GONE FOR WORK, WAS LOST UNDER WHEELS OF HORSE CREW. UNFORTUNATELY, AT THAT TIME VERY FEW PEOPLE REFLECTED ON HOW RADIATION IS DANGEROUS. ON JUNE, 4 TH, 1934 MARIA AFTER A HEAVY LEUKAEMIA HAS DIED IN HOSPITAL OF PLACE SASELMOS