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    Marie Curie Was Born in Warsaw On November 7, 1867. Her Mother Was A

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    Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867 and received her early education in local schools. She became a governess to support herself after her mother died, continuing her studies in her free time. She moved to Paris in 1891 to attend the Sorbonne University, where she studied physics and mathematics. There she met Pierre Curie, whom she married in 1895. Together they isolated the elements polonium and radium through their research. After Pierre's death in 1906, Marie became the first female professor at the Sorbonne. She received Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity. Marie Curie is considered one of the most influential women in science.

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    Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867 and received her early education in local schools. She became a governess to support herself after her mother died, continuing her studies in her free time. She moved to Paris in 1891 to attend the Sorbonne University, where she studied physics and mathematics. There she met Pierre Curie, whom she married in 1895. Together they isolated the elements polonium and radium through their research. After Pierre's death in 1906, Marie became the first female professor at the Sorbonne. She received Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity. Marie Curie is considered one of the most influential women in science.

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    Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867 and received her early education in local schools. She became a governess to support herself after her mother died, continuing her studies in her free time. She moved to Paris in 1891 to attend the Sorbonne University, where she studied physics and mathematics. There she met Pierre Curie, whom she married in 1895. Together they isolated the elements polonium and radium through their research. After Pierre's death in 1906, Marie became the first female professor at the Sorbonne. She received Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity. Marie Curie is considered one of the most influential women in science.

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    Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867.

    Her mother was a


    teacher, and she had a standard education in local schools with some basic
    scientific training from her father. After her mother died and her father could no
    longer support her she become a governess; reading and studying in her own
    time to quench her thirst for knowledge; a passion she never lost.
    Her dream to become a teacher was never a possibility because money, or
    rather lack of it, prevented her from a formal higher education. However, when
    her sister offered her lodgings in Paris with a view to going to university, she
    grasped the opportunity and moved to France in 1891.
    She immediately entered Sorbonne University in Paris where she read physics
    and mathematics - her insatiable appetite for learning meant she had naturally
    discovered her love of the subjects.
    She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics, in 1894, and in the
    following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the
    Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in
    1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as
    Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences; the first time a woman
    had held this position.
    Her early research, together with her husband, was often performed under
    difficult conditions; laboratory arrangements were poor and they both had to do
    a lot of teaching to earn a living.
    Their brilliant research and analysis led to the isolation of polonium, named after
    the country of Marie's birth, and radium. Mme. Curie developed methods to make
    radium in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful
    study of its properties; its therapeutic properties in particular.
    Mme. Curie throughout her life actively promoted the use of radium to alleviate
    suffering, and during World War I, assisted by her daughter, Irene; she personally
    devoted herself to this remedial work.
    Mme. Curie was held in high esteem and admiration by scientists throughout the
    world. The importance of Mme. Curie's work is reflected in the numerous awards
    bestowed on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law
    degrees and was granted membership to many learned societies throughout the
    world. Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for
    Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by
    Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a
    second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in
    radioactivity.
    Today, radioactive decay is one of the best treatments we have for cancer. She
    noticed that it can destroy tissue, after her hands burned when she was handling
    uranite, but healed afterwards. It is also the reason we have x-ray machines in

    hospitals, and led to the invention of carbon dating. It is no surprise, that she is
    considered by many to be the most influential woman in science.

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