Born in Warsaw Poland on November 7 1867 Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie and the two soon married forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy France on July 4 1934 a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.