Essay Archive - Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Sklodowska Curie was one of the first woman scientists to win
world-wide fame and win a Nobel prize. She was born on November 7, 1867 in
Warsaw, Poland. Her family was poor and consisted of her mother, a
musician, her father, a teacher and her three older sisters and her brother.
Her family took in boarders, one of which had a deadly disease, which her
mother later died of.
She was raised in a family that valued education. She got late
start with her education, however, and obtained her license in physics in
1893 and the corresponding degree in mathematics in....
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