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Marie Curie
The woman destined to be known worldwide as Madame Curie was born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 7, 1867. The Sklodowskas were members of the impoverished Polish bourgeoisie, and her father struggled to support his large family as a high school teacher of physics and mathematics. He was apparently a brilliant man, and Marie learned both from his example and from his hands-on teaching, developing into a brilliant young student herself. But her mother suffered from tuberculosis and, hoping to spare her children, decided one day she could never touch them again. Marie was five years old at the time, and it is thought that her lifelong aversion to public displays of affection sprang from being denied physical affection as a child. At age nine, she was greatly pained by her mother's death; it was not the last time that she would lose a crucial loved one. As a young woman, Marie poured herself into her studies, which perhaps represented the one world she could control. From 1885 to 1889, she selflessly worked as a governess, sending her earnings to her older sister, Bronya, who was studying medicine in Paris. Then, when her own turn came at the Sorbonne, she hit the books with a ferocious determination, graduating first in her class--the first woman to earn a Liciencee es Sciences Physiques. A Ph.D., which she earned in 1903, was a foregone conclusion. Marie's life blossomed personally and professionally when she met Pierre Curie, a brilliant young French physicist. They were married in 1895 and eventually had two daughters, Irene and Eve. Together they decided to further A.H. Becquerel's investigation of the radioactive properties of uranium. For the scientific world, 1898 was a turning-point year--thanks to the Curies: In July, they announced the discovery of a new radioactive element, polonium (named by Marie after her motherland); in December, they announced their discovery of radium. Their next step was to isolate both elements. Po... Please login to view comments from other users.
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