Marie and Pierre Curie were scientists who lived in Paris, France. They discovered a new and strange substance. Marie was born in Poland on November 7, 1869. Her father was professor Sklodowsky. He was a physicist. He taught Marie much about his work. She tried to study more at the University of Warsaw in Poland, but women were not allowed to attend.

Marie left Poland in 1891 to study in Paris at Sorbonne. One of the French scientists she worked with was Pierre Curie. She married him in 1895. They had a laboratory in Paris. One day someone left the substance they were studying on top of some photographic plates. They discovered this strange substance left streaks of light when the film was developed.

Marie and Pierre tried to isolate the rays coming from this substance. In 1896 they announced their new discovery. The substance was radium, and the rays were called radiation.

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