Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born as Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Marie’s parents were both educators and Marie had four siblings. Education was important in Marie’s family and it well influenced her upbringing. The family was also brought up Roman Catholic. Two of Marie’s siblings became physicians, another became an educator, and one of her sisters died of typhus when Marie was only eight years old. About three years after the death of Marie’s sister Zosia her mother passed away after battling tuberculosis, this lead Marie into depression. Also after her mothers death she lost her faith in God. Marie attended local schools for basic education and her father read literary classics to Marie and her siblings. Marie’s father also exposed the children to science and the scientific apparatus. Marie was not able to get an advanced degree since she was a woman. Therefore she joined a Floating University with some of her friends and her sister. “It was one of those groups of Polish youths who believed that the hope of their country lay in a great effort to develop the intellectual and moral strength of the nation” (Marie Curie). At the age of 18 she took a post as a governess, she used her earning
Marie was offered space in the lab of Pierre Curie, a physics teacher at the University of Paris. Marie found other space at a Municipal School, but in the meantime her relationship with Pierre was growing from mutual respect to love. “Our work drew us closer and closer, until we were both convinced that neither of us could find a better life companion" (Marie Curie). Marie and Pierre married on July 25, 1895; this was the beginning of a wonderful scientific partnership. During all the madness, Marie received a telegram informing her that she had been given a second Nobel Prize in chemistry. She found the strength to attend the award ceremony, accompanied by her sister Bronya and her daughter Irene. At the ceremony the president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences explained why Curie's 1898 discovery of two new elements deserved this additional recognition. Curie redeclared her claim to be the first to see that radioactivity was a property built into atoms. She also gave credit to Rutherford and other scientists and she acknowledged the role Pierre had played in her work. s to finance her sister Bronia's medical studies in Paris. She made a pact with her sister on the comprehension that Bronia would later help Marie to get an education.
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