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 1894. She finally
received her doctorate in 1903 and stud....
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