Marie's Childhood

When Marie was young, she had an interest in science. Her parents, Bronislawa and Wladyslaw, who were both teachers, encouraged her interest. At age 10, her mother died and she went off to boarding school. Later, though, she switched over to a gymnasium, which is a school for academically strong kids. When she was 15, she graduated from high school and got a gold medal for being the top of her class. After all that, she was still interested in science and wanted to learn more about it, but there was a problem. In Poland, higher education for women was not available. 

Marie's Educationional Background

Marie went to the local schools when she was younger and learned some things about science from her father. While she was there she had gotten involved in a Student Revolutionary Organization, then she decided it would be best to leave Warsaw. When she was 24, she went to Paris to study at Sorbonne. She got a Licenciateships of Physics & Mathematical Sciences and also met Pierre Curie, who she  married year later, there. Later, she got her Doctor of Science degree in 1903.

Marie's Accomplishments

Marie came 1st in the License of Physical Sciences in 1893 & came 2nd in Mathematical Sciences in 1894. After she married Pierre Curie, they discovered Polonium & Radium in 1898. In June 1903, she got her Doctorate of Science. Later,but still in 1903,  Pierre and her were awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society. In 1906, her husband, Pierre died and she was appointed to be a professor in Sorbonne, she was the first woman to teach in Sorbonne. She became Titular Professor in 1908. Her treatise on radioactivity was published in 1910. One year later, in 1911, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.  

Marie's Later Years

In 1921, Marie and her two daughters went to the Unites States where she got a gram of radium from Warren G. Harding. She would travel and give lectures and was made a member of the International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. Marie Curie died later in 1934 due to aplastic anemia.

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MARY

Hardworking, optimistic, smart

Mother of Irene and Eve Curie

Who loved Pierre Curie and science

Who loved her work, loved to help save people, and hated that people assumed bad things about her

Who feared she wouldn’t be able to go to University, feared that people would believe the rumors about her would be true, and feared that she would die because of her work

Who discovered radium and polonium and contributed in figuring out some uses that radiation could do medically

Who wanted to see our understanding of science evolve and wanted to help save peoples lives

She was born in Poland and lived in France

CURIE

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