MikaLu 1. Are famous for their work on radioactivity
2. She also isolated two new radioactive elements
3. After Pierre's death, she took over his job as professor of physics at the University of Paris
4. She was awarted the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903
5. Marie Curie was the first to use the term "radioactive"
6. Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw, Poland in 1867
7. She was the youngest of five children
8. Her mother died in 1877