Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. She along with her husband, Pierre Curie, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium. She is the only person awarded Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. She had two children named Irene and Eve. She passed away on July4, 1934 at the age of 66 from aplastic anemia believed to have been due to her long- term exposure to radiation. Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?