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Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy.
Marie met Pierre Curie, Professor and researcher at the Paris University, in 1894 when she started research for her doctoral thesis in his laboratory. They married in 1895 and had two children, Eve and Irene. In 1898, with Pierre Curie, she discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. Pierre passed away in 1906, victim of an accident. She continued research isolating polonium and radium to fully demon-strate the existence of the elements discovered through their radioactive emissions.