The life and work of Marie Curie

Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist     1     has ever lived. Born in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, she     2     (award) the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, and was then sole winner of     3     1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman     4     (win) the Nobel Prize.

From childhood, Marie was praised for her great memory, and at the age of 16 won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education. Because her father lost his savings through bad investment, she had to work     5     a teacher. From her earnings she was able to help her sister Bronia study in Paris, on the     6     (understand) that Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education.

In 1891, this promise was accomplished and Marie went to Paris and began     7     (study) at the University of Paris. She often worked far into the night and     8     (live) on little more than bread and tea. Due to her hard work, she always came     9     (one) in the examination. It was not     10     the spring of that year that she was introduced to Pierre Curie.

Using a     1     (low) temperature to draw out the extract, Tu Youyou found a substance that worked. After failing more than 190 times, the team     2     (final) succeeded in 1971. Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted     3     testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe. Later, the medicine was tested on malaria patients, most of     4     recovered. This medicine, which     5     (call) artemisinin, soon became a standard treatment for malaria.