A great scientist!

I had a little trouble choosing a topic for this post. But it's impossible to forget one of the first scientists I heard at school, and her great impact on the scientific world, and she's a woman.

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw (Poland) on November 7, 1867. Her mother died when she was 10 years old and she had a difficult childhood.

She was unable to enter university just because she was a woman, which made her desire to do so even stronger. At the age of 24 she moved to France to study and three years later she graduated in Physics from the University of Paris and was number one in her class.

In 1898 she and her husband Pierre announced the discovery of new elements: radium and polonium, both more radioactive than uranium.

In 1903 both received the Nobel Prize in Physics, being the first woman to win one, and in 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She died in 1934 because of the radiation to which she was exposed.

I like her because although she and her husband made the same discovery, at the time she didn’t have the same recognition as him, until he died. And it is incredible to think that what happened more than 100 years ago is still happening. Women's work has always been looking at less, but definitely that is being eradicated and I love being part of this process.