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- Mid Life
- Later Life
- My Dialogue with Maria Curie
Introduction and Early Life
Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)
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There is a beginning and an end of every scientist that passed away but left behind her/his contribution in this world. We start looking at Curie’s life from what people at their time view her through the remark about her. After this end point of Curie’s life on earth, we go back to look at her beginning life, early life, then mid life and later life…
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Background: Marie Curie was a Polish-born physicist and chemist and one of the most famous scientists of her time. Together with her husband Pierre, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903, and she went on to win another in 1911.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Theoretical Physicist: “Not only did she do outstanding work in her lifetime, and not only did she help humanity greatly by her work, but she invested all her work with the highest moral quality. All of this she accomplished with great strength, objectivity, and judgment. It is very rare to find all of these qualities in one individual.”
Early life: Marie was born in Warsaw on 7 November 1867, the daughter of a teacher. From childhood she was remarkable for her prodigious memory, and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education at the Russian lycée. Because her father, a teacher of mathematics and physics, lost his savings through bad investment, she had to take work as a teacher and, at the same time, took part clandestinely in the nationalist “free university,” reading in Polish to women workers. At the age of 18 she took a post as governess, where she suffered an unhappy love affair. From her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronisława’s medical studies in Paris, with the understanding that Bronisława would in turn later help her to get an education.
In 1891, she went to Paris and worked far into the night in her student-quarters garret and virtually lived on bread and butter and tea.
This was a time of some hardship for the young scientist; winters in her unheated apartment chilled her to the bone.
Top Student Again
In summer 1893, aged 26, Marie finished as top student in her masters physics degree course. She was then awarded industrial funding to investigate how the composition of steel affected its magnetic properties. The idea was to find ways of making stronger magnets.
Her thirst for knowledge also pushed her to continue with her education, and she completed a masters degree in chemistry in 1894, aged 27.
She began to work in Lippmann’s research laboratory and in 1894 was placed second in the licence of mathematical sciences. Later she met Pierre Curie, professor of the School of Physics. They were married in 1895.
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Ref.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/curie_marie.shtml
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/146871/Marie-Curie
http://www.famousscientists.org/marie-curie/
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