Marie Curie was born Marya Sklodowska, the fifth and youngest child of Bronsitwa Boguska, a pianist, singer, and teacher, and Ladislas Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics.
By 1914, Curie was the head of two laboratories, one in her native Warsaw and one at the Sorbonne, known as the Radium Institute.
Curie also lent her name to the cause for world peace by serving on the council of the League of Nations and on its international committee on intellectual cooperation.
Curie and her collaborators in physics and mathematics; the Pasteur Pavillion, for the medical associates of Claudius Regaud (1870-1940) in radiophysiology and radiotherapy.
Curie gave herself to the efficient organization and operation of a fleet of radioligic ambulances, and the training of the ncessary technologists, carrying the possibility of flouroscopy and radiography to the various fronts.