Biography marie curie sklodowska
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Marie Curie ( - )
Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, Her early years were sorrowful. As a child, she suffered the deaths of her sister and, fyra years later, her mother. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She was notable for her diligent work ethic, neglecting even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a mental breakdown for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish universities so she worked as a governess for several years.
Sklodowska eventually left Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In , with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne, where she became the first woman to teach, after obtaining her Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. There she met
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Maria Skłodowska Curie was born in Warsaw on 7th November as a daughter of a physics teacher. She graduated from secondary school in Warsaw with a gold medal and worked as a teacher for eight years. She completed her initial training for experimental research in chemistry and physics in the laboratory at the Museum of Industry and Agriculture in Warsaw. In , she studied at the Sorbonne’s Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, obtaining there the BSc title in physics and mathematics. She met her future husband Pierre Curie at Prof Kowalski’s home. Having married in , she obtained French citizenship. Her first research paper, published in May , drew the attention of the scientific world to the Becquerel radiation.
Two months later, following arduous work to isolate the sought substance from uraninite, the Curies reported discovering a new radioactive element: „Some ores containing uranium and thorium (uraninite, torbernite, uranite) are very active in terms of emitting Becquere
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Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (–)
This article is about the Polish-French physicist. For the musician, see Marie Currie. For other uses, see Marie Curie (disambiguation).
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie[a] (Polish:[ˈmarjasalɔˈmɛaskwɔˈdɔfskakʲiˈri]ⓘ; née&#;Skłodowska; 7 November – 4 July ), known simply as Marie Curie (KURE-ee;[1]French:[maʁikyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in , the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.[2]
She was born in Warsaw, i