The hidden power

She was a poor girl who worked to get money to pay for her lessons she became the most famous woman scientist of her time. that is the story of Marie Curie's life.

She did not little notice of the honours that were give to her in later years.this was the secret of her greatness.

She was born Marie SKLodovska in 1867 Marie lived in Poland where her father was a teather .

Every one soon saw that Marie had aquick mind.she loved nothing better than to spend hours reading books.

But her bady was very thin and weak.so her mother often asked her to leave her lessons and play out in the sun.Marie's mother died when her youngest daughter was only ten.from then on.Marie knew that she would have to work very hard at her lessons if she wanted to be successful in her life .she studied very hard and and won top honours at her school.

Marie and her older sister, Bronya,dreamed of studing in frence at the Sorbonne.

Their father ,however, did not earn enough money to send them there.it was Mar