Chronology
1867 Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Warsaw.
1883 She graduated at the top of her class and was awarded the gold medal.
1886 Marie joined the Zorawski family as a governess, in order to save for the education of her sister Bronya and herself.
1891 Moved to Paris.
1893 She graduated from the Sorbonne University with a Degree in Physics.
1894 Marie received a second degree in Mathematics from the same university.
1895 Marie Sklodowska married Pierre Curie, a professor of Physics at Sorbonne University.
Sept. 12, 1897 A beautiful little girl was born to Marie. They named her Irene. Marie obtained a university fellowship, and engaged herself in research work.
April 12, 1898 In a paper written for the Academy, she told of the probable presence of a new metal of powerful radioactivity in pitchblende ores. By the summer of the year, the Curies announced the discovery of a new metal and named it ‘Polonium’. On the December 26, they declared the discovery of ‘Radium’, the new radioactive metal.
1903 Madame Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie, was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics.
Dec., 1904 Her second child, Eve was born.
June 6, 1905 In the name of his wife and himself, Pierre gave his lecture on radium.
1906 Pierre Curie died on 19th April. After her husband’s tragic death, Madame Curie was asked to succeed his post at Sorbonne. For the first time such a great honor had been awarded to a woman. She gave her first lecture on November 5.
1908 She was appointed as a full-time professor at Sorbonne University.
1911 Madame Curie received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Appointed by a Commission of Scientists, she prepared the International Standard of radium chloride, which is preserved in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Madame Curie proposed membership to the French Academy of Science, but was rejected on gender bias.
1919 Madame Curie took her place as the head of the laboratory of the Radium Institute, after the end of the World War I.
1920 Her health deteriorated, and she was on the verge of blindness.
1921 Her first visit to America. Three Orchestras and many thousands of fans received her, including President Harding.
1922 She was elected to the French Academy of Medicine for her contribution to radiological medicine.
1929 Second journey to America, which ended only a few days before the great stock exchange crash.
1923-30 She underwent operations four times on her eyes.
July 4 , 1934 Madame Curie died of leukemia, at the age of 67, in France. She was buried at Scedux, just outside Paris on July 24, 1934.