She was born Maria Sktodowska-Curie (1867-1934) in Warsaw, Poland, where she lived until she was 22. She excelled at school, was a top student in her secondary school, but couldn’t attend the men-only University of Warsaw. She instead continued her education in Warsaw’”floating university’, a set of underground informal classes held in secret. Later, she was naturalized French . While a French citizen, she never lost her sense...

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In 1896, Henri Becquerel encouraged her to study how radiations emitted by uranium salts, which had been discovered by him. Together with her husband, Marie began to study the materials that produce such radiations, looking for new elements which, according to a hypothesis that the two defenders, should exist in certain ores as a pitchblende (which had a curious characteristic of emitting still...

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The Pantheon : The couple originally were buried in the Paris suburb of Sceaux (department 92) In 1995 their remains were moved in interred in the Pantheon in Paris alongside France’s greatest citizens (Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Rousseau…) Marie Curie was the first woman interred there based on her own merits. The Pantheon is a building in the Latin quarter in Paris which was originally built as a church. ECPI – Pierre...

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