Madame Curie

MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie was born in Poland on November 7, 1867 but some years later she moved to French. She was a great scientist. In 1894 Marie met Pierre Curie. Like Marie, he was a scientist and the two of them fell in love. They married a year later and soon had their first child, a daughter named Irene

In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marie and Pierre Curie as well as Henri Becquerel for their work in radiation. Marie became the first woman to be awarded the prize.

In 1911 Marie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the two elements, polonium and radium. She was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. Marie became very famous. Scientists came from around the world to study radioactivity with Marie. Soon doctors found that radiology could help with curing cancer. She died on July 4, 1934.

Albert Einstein

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. He was not very happy at school. He was not very good at mathematics. But he was good at music, especially at playing the violin.

After he left school, he became interesting in mathematics. After some time he became a famous mathematician and physicist.

In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics. His ideas changed physics. His theory of relativity changed our ideas about time and space.

He went to live in the United States of America in 1933. He died there in 1955.

Braille's Code

LOUIS BRAILLE

Louis Braille was from Paris France. He was born on January 4 in 1809. Louis became blind by accident, when he was 3 years old.  He loved music and he was a good student too, but his life conditions were so hard.  When he was adult, he worked for a long time to develop a useful writing and reading system. Finally, he could get an interesting code to write and read, addressed to blind people in 1829. Louis Braille signs help blind people to communicate independently, without needing print.

He got tuberculosis and died when he was 43 years old.

Louis proved that if you have the motivation, you can do incredible things!

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