Marie Curie Marie Sklodowska Curie was one of the first woman scientists to win world-wide fame and win a Nobel prize. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her family was poor and consisted of her mother, a musician, her father, a teacher and her three older sisters and her brother. Her family took in boarders, one of which had a deadly disease, which her mother later died of. She was raised in a family that valued education. She got late start with her education, however, and obtained her license in physics in 1893 and the corresponding degree in mathematics in 1894. She finally received her doctorate in 1903 and study mathematics, chemistry and physics ....

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