Unit 3D, Vocabulary and Speaking Exercise 2B, page 48.0:01
Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867.0:26
She was the youngest of five children.0:33
Her parents worked as teachers and they brought her up to love learning.0:36
Her mother died in 1877.0:41
Manya, as they called her, and her sisters had to get jobs.0:44
Manya became a tutor for a family.0:50
She enjoyed her time there and could send money to her father and her sister Bronya, who was studying medicine in Paris.0:53
When her sister got married, she invited Manya to live with them and study at the Sorbonne.1:01
It was then that Manya changed her name to Marie.1:08
Marie studied physics and maths and got her master's degree in both fields.1:11
When she graduated from university, she started research into magnetism.1:18
It was at that time that she met Pierre Curie, a young scientist.1:23
They fell in love immediately and got married.1:28
Marie moved to his house and they both started examining uranium and other elements to find out if these substances were radioactive.1:32
It took them four years to isolate the radioactive source, which she named radium.1:41
For this they won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903.1:47
In 1906, her husband died in an accident and Marie got the position they had offered him at the Sorbonne.1:52
In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.2:00
During World War I, she designed the first mobile X ray machine and travelled with it along the front lines.2:05
Marie died in July 1934 in Paris.2:14
She died of radiation poisoning.2:18
She worked hard and proved that if a person keeps to their goals, they will succeed.2:21
For her success came with the two Nobel Prizes she received and the fact that she was the first woman to ever get one.2:26
We all owe her our respect and admiration.2:34
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