Marie Curie (Manya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw (Warszawa), Poland, on November 7, 1867. She moved to Paris in early 1880 and married Frenchman Pierre Curie in 1895. With her husband, she discovered the elements polonium (Po), named after her native Poland, in the summer of 1898 and, soon thereafter, radium (Ra). She is credited for coining the term "radioactivity" and won her first Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband and another colleague, Henri Becquerel, in 1903. Following Pierre's death in 1906, Marie was appointed to her husband's professorship and was the first woman to teach at Paris' Sorbonne University. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911 for her research in the isolation of pure radium. #Quotes