Marie would write letters and send some money to her sister while she was gone. Finally her sister had a degree and enough money to send for Marie.

Then Marie to went to school in Paris to earn her degree in chemistry, mathematics, and physics. She learned to adapt to the French writing of her name. While she was in school a friend invited her to his house and this is were she met Pierre, her future husband. She married Pierre in 1895 and had two children, Irene and Eve.

For years after they worked on proving that radium existed but in 1898 the Curies announced the discovery of polonium. Then they finally did it, it was hard work and it took so much time that they hired a house-maid to take care of their children but the answer finally came from pitchblende. They grounded it up and then they boiled it and they got their first element of radium, now there was proof for the world to see that radium existed.