Английский язык, 8 класс

Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was the youngest of five children. Her parents worked as teachers and they brought her up to love learning. Her mother died in 1877. She and her sisters had to get jobs. When her sister got married, she invited Marie to live with them and study at the Sorbonne. When she graduated from university, she started research for magnetism. She met Pierre Curie, a young scientist and they got married. They started examining uranium and other elements to decide whether they were radioactive. In 1903 they got a Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marie died in July 1934 in Paris because of radiation poisoning.