Marie Curie was one of the (much) famous and greatest people of her time. Together with her husband Pierre, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903, and she tried her best (win) another in 1911.
Marie (be) the daughter of a teacher. In 1891, she went to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne in she met Pierre Curie, professor of the School of Physics. They got married in 1895. The Curies worked together researching radioactivity (放射性). At the end of 1898, they announced discovery of radium. The Curies, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
Pierre's life was cut short in 1906 when he was (kill) by a carriage. Marie took over his teaching work, (become) the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. And she devoted herself to continuing the work that they had begun together. She received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
Despite her (succeed), Marie continued to face great objection from men (scientist) in France, and she never received much money from her work. In the late 1920s, her health was beginning to become worse, and she died July 4th, 1934 from highenergy radiation from her research.
