Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.


一八六七年十一月七號，居里夫人出生於波蘭的華沙。因為當時的華沙大學只收男學生，所以她只好前往巴黎的索邦大學攻讀物理和數學。她在索邦大學結識皮耶‧居里教授，很快地兩人就結婚了，成為歷史上最著名的科學伴侶之一。他們一起發現了兩種化學元素，在一九零三年獲得諾貝爾獎。（之後居里夫人也在一九一一年獲得另一座諾貝爾化學獎。）她因多年接觸有毒的輻射物質，在一九三四年七月四號於法國的薩伏依與世長辭。