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Find out what Marie Curie does in Northern Ireland, including services, our hospice in Belfast, and our campaigning and policy work. We want to improve care for everyone living with a terminal illness. Find out how we're doing this through our policy work.

We believe everyone should have the right to palliative care when they need it. Learn more about our campaigns and find out how you can help. Talking openly about death, dying and bereavement can make it that little bit easier to process when the time comes. That's why we've launched a new site that aims to open up the conversation around death.

Visit Talkabout. Marie Curie is a charity. We rely on kind donations from our supporters in order to continue to offer vital services for people living with a terminal illness and their families.

Your gift could pay for one hour of vital nursing care for someone living with a terminal illness in the comfort of their own home. This gift will provide nine hours of nursing support in someone's home through the night, bringing the expert care and comfort families need.

Your kind regular gift could help provide much needed support for families. Over the course of a year your gift could provide an entire night of care in someone's home, helping them stay with their family. You gift will pay for a vital hour of nursing care from a Marie Curie Nurse for someone living with a terminal illness every month.

Whatever you can give, your kind donation means people living with a terminal illness and their families can get expert care and support. When a parent is diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, it can feel impossible for them to know what to say to their children. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of teachers who believed strongly in education. She moved to Paris to continue her studies and there met Pierre Curie, who became both her husband and colleague in the field of radioactivity.

The couple later shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Marie was widowed in , but continued the couple's work and went on to become the first person ever to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

They examined many substances and minerals for signs of radioactivity. They found that the mineral pitchblende was more radioactive than uranium and concluded that it must contain other radioactive substances. From it they managed to extract two previously unknown elements, polonium and radium, both more radioactive than uranium. Her early researches, together with her husband, were often performed under difficult conditions, laboratory arrangements were poor and both had to undertake much teaching to earn a livelihood.

Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular. Curie throughout her life actively promoted the use of radium to alleviate suffering and during World War I, assisted by her daughter, Irene, she personally devoted herself to this remedial work.

Curie, quiet, dignified and unassuming, was held in high esteem and admiration by scientists throughout the world. She was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from until her death and since she had been a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations.

The importance of Mme. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in , for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize.