A native of Warsaw, Marie Sklodowska moved to Paris, the city where she met the scientist Pierre Curie, whom she married in 1895. Marie and Pierre Curie, after years of work, managed to isolate a new element, naming it radium for the radiations it emitted. This was the most sensational discovery of the new century. Through their subsequent research they demonstrated that radium could be useful also in the medical sphere. In 1903 they were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. After the death of her husband in 1906, Madame Curie continued to carry out research alone, and in 1910 she managed to isolate "metallic radium". For this achievement, she was awarded a second Nobel Prize, this time for chemistry, in the following year. She died on July 4, 1934, from the consequences of having absorbed radiation from radioactive bodies.