| Marie Curie was born | | because the family rented out rooms to students. |
| As a child she had to sleep on the couch | | two new radioactive elements. |
| After she graduated from high school | | bicycles for Pierre and herself. |
| Marie and her sister each | | her father allowed her to spend a year with relatives. |
| At the Sorbonne Marie studied | | in Poland. |
| For a wedding present she bought | | pitchblende uranium ore. |
| Marie and Pierre discovered | | mathematics and physics. |
| They worked with a ton of | | he stepped out in front of a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Pierre and Marie received the | | worked on the battlefield. |
| Her husband was killed when | | her years of exposure to radium. |
| During World War 1 Marie and her daughter | | worked to send the other to college. |
| She became ill and died from | | Nobel Prize for their discovery of radioactivity. |