Marie Sklodowska Curie :: biographies bio

Marie Sklodowska CuriePhysicist1867-1934You cannot hope to build a better world without ameliorate the individuals.To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the homogeneoustime, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our grouchy duty beingto aid those to whom we think we can be most(prenominal) useful. Marie CurieMaria Sklodowska was born November 7, 1867, as the fifth and youngest child of Bronsilawa Boguska, a pianist, singer, and teacher, and Wladyslaw Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics. She received a general tuition in local schools and some scientific training from her father. From childhood she was remarkable for her prodigious memory, and at the age of 16 she won a bills medal on completion of her secondary education at the Russian lyce. Since her father, a teacher of mathematics a nd physics, lost his savings through abominable investment, she had to take work as a teacher and, at the same time, took part clandestinely in the nationalist free university, reading in assail to women workers. At the age of 18 she took a post as governess, where she suffered an distressed love affair. From her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronias medical studies in Paris, on the understanding that Bronia would in turn later help her to part an education. She became involved in a students revolutionary organization and found it discreet to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences.