Marie Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was the ..... (young) of five children.

1 Marie Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was the ..... (young) of five children.

2 Her parents worked as teachers and they brought her up to love learning. Her mother ..... (die) in 1877. ‘Manya’ (as they called her) and her sisters had to get jobs.

3 Manya became a tutor¹ for a family. She enjoyed her time there and could send money to her father and her sister, Bronya, who ..... (study) medicine in Paris.

4 When her sister got married, she invited Manya to live with ..... (they) and study at the Sorbonne. It was then that Manya changed her name to Marie.

5 Marie studied Physics and Maths and got her Master's degree in both fields. When she graduated from university, she ..... (start) research into magnetism.

6 It was at that time that she met Pierre Curie, a young scientist. They fell in love ..... (immediate) and got married. Marie moved to his house and they both started examining uranium and other elements to find out if these substances were radioactive.

7 It took them four years to isolate² the radioactive source, which she named radium. For this, they won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. In 1906, her husband died in an accident and Marie got the position they ..... (offer) him at the Sorbonne.

8 In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in chemistry. During World War I, she designed the ..... (one) mobile X-Ray machine and travelled with it along the front lines³.

9 Marie died in July, 1934 in Paris. She died of radiation poisoning. She worked hard and proved that if a person keeps to their goals⁴, they ..... (success). For her, success came with the two Nobel Prizes she received and the fact that she was the first woman to ever get one. We all owe⁵ her our respect and admiration.

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