Marie Curie was a Polish scientist. She was born in1867 and was firm and fantastic. She discovered a kind of new element-radium with her husband. And she got the Nobel Prize twice. People think that Marie Curie was the greatest woman scientist of the twentieth century.

    Marie and her husband believed that there was an element and they wanted to find it. So they worked hard in the lab all day long. One night, Marie Curie went to the lab. In the dark, she saw the element was blue and beautiful. They discovered radium in 1898!

    In 1903, Marie and her husband got the Nobel Prize. They got seventy thousand francs. Marie just took a little money to go on with her study. She gave the money to others and helped the poor. Marie didn't care for the money or gold medals. She only cared about the science study.

    Marie Curie worked very hard for long. She was sick. In 1934, Marie Curie closed her eyes forever.