Marie Curie

Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw in 1867. Both her parents were teachers who believed in the importance of education. Marie had her first lessons in physics and chemistry from her father. She had a great attitude for study and a wanted all the knowledge she could get. But advanced study was not possible for women in Poland. Marie dreamed of being able to attend school at the Sorbonne in Paris, but this was beyond the means of her family. Marie and her older sister, Bronya decided to move to Paris so that Bronya could study medicine at the Sorbonne and when she had received her degree she would help pay for Marie to go to school. So it was not until she was 24 that Marie came to Paris to study mathematics and physics. By then she’d been away from her studies for six years, and didn’t have any training in understanding rapidly spoken French. But her interest in studying and her joy at being at the Sorbonne with all its opportunities helped her overcome......

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Title: Marie Curie
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