Marie Curie was born on 7th November, 1867. She was born in Warsaw. As a child Marie Curie was very good at Mathematics and Physics. In 1891 she went to study at Sorbonne university in Paris. When she was 30 she discovered polonium and radium. In 1903 she won Nobel prize in Physics and 8 years later she also won a Nobel prize in Chemistry. In 1906 Marie Curie was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne, promoted X-ray machines during First World War. At the age of 66 she died in Savoy in France. It was on the 4th of July.