Marie_Curie

Marie Curie Curie, Marie 1867 -- 1934 Physicist. Born Manya Sklodowska, on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, the youngest of the five children of Wladislaw and Bronislava Boguska Sklodowska. Marie was a brilliant student, gaining a gold medal upon completing her secondary education in 1883. As girls could not attend universities in Russian-dominated Poland, Marie at her father's suggestion spent a year in the country with friends. On returning to her father's house in Warsaw the next summer, she had to begin to earn her living through private tutoring, and she also became associated with the "Floating University," a group of young men and women who tried to quench their thirst for knowledge in semi-clandestine sessions. In early 1886 she accepted a job as governess with a family living in Szczuki, but the intellectual loneliness she experienced there only stiffened her determination to achieve somehow her dream to become a university student. One of her sisters, Bronya, was already in Paris, successfully passing the examinations in medicine. In March 1890 she offered hospitality to Marie whose acceptance was a foregone conclusion, but it was not until September 1891 that she could leave for Paris. When classes began at the Sorbonne in Paris in early November 1891, she enrolled as a student curie, marie, paris, years, year, scientific, physics, institute, curies, radium, pierre, new, first, radioactivity, later, laboratory, war, two, sorbonne, one, came, after, world, study, science, curie's, bronya, began, before, warsaw, university, took, sciences, poland, pitchblende, now