Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, where he lived until 24, and died on July 4, 1934 in Sallanches. Chemistry and physics was Polish, then French nationalized.
pioneer in the field of radioactivity, was the first person to win two Nobel prizes. In 1891 he moved to Paris to continue his studies. Founded Curie Institute in Paris and Warsaw.
She was married physicist Pierre Curie and was mother, Irène and Eve. The first would follow their parents and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The second was a journalist and wrote a biography of her mother.
Pierre Curie died in an accident the morning of April 19, 1906, after being hit by a cab on a street in Paris on his way to his lab.
was the fifth child of the marriage of Ladislas Sklodowska, professor of physics and mathematics in high school, and Boguska Bronislawa, who was a teacher, pianist and singer.
From an early age, he demonstrated Marie an excellent memory and an ability to study, was fond of reading, natural history and physics. Although her childhood was broken and at age 9, when his elder sister Sophie died, and then two years later, his mother from tuberculosis.
Marie dreams of making a scientific career, a dream at that time inconceivable for a woman, especially at home, because the universities were prohibited to women.
When Marie finished her high school career like his will led her to enroll in a private school where he taught science.
The precarious economic situation Marie that he lived in his country, was due to the political dangers affecting his father, implied that Marie having to leave the parental home and go to work as a governess.
In the fall of 1891, Marie moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. However, his unswerving commitment allows you to get a degree in physics, then math. In addition, he could discover the intellectual freedom and independence they crave.
is in these years of the Sorbonne university in a Polish friend introduced him to a young, shy and reserved: Pierre Curie. And the freethinker, known for his work on crystallography and magnetism, will become in her husband July 26, 1895.
was ambitious and self-taught, her only obsession was to learn.