MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE

Marie Curie (Maria Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw to a secondary school teacher's family and she received a general education in local schools and received some scientific education form her father. She was associated with a students' revolutionary organization and finally decided to leave Warsaw and head for Poland. She went to Paris in 1891 for further studies and obtained licentiateships in physics and mathematical sciences. It was here that she came across Pierre Curie in 1894 and the following year they were married. Marie had actually come a long way to take admission to the Poland University, Sorbonne which did not admit women at that point of time. Marie spent most of her time reading in the library or in the laboratory; in the mean time she caught the attention of Pierre Curie who was the director of one of the laboratories Marie 

. Pierre Curie used every possible method to woo Marie into marrying him and placed several marriage proposals for her. Finally they got married in 1895 and began their glorious partnership towards marriage and profession as scientists. With the death of Pierre in a road accident Marie pledged to continue his work and in 1911 she became the first person to have two noble prizes, the second one was for chemistry. She got the first noble prize in 1903 in physics for discovering radioactivity.

Pierre Curie was a medical practitioner's son born in Paris. He received his early education at home before joining the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne. He gained his licentiateship in physics in 1878 and worked as a demonstrator in physics laboratory until 1882. It was here in the year 1894 that he found his soul mate Marie Curie who shared the same passion for physics and discovery of new scientific findings. Marie Curie succeeded her husband as head of the physics laboratory and gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903 and following the tragic death of Pierre in 1906, Marie took over as the professor of general physics in the faculty of sciences and joined as the first woman professor in the university. She was also appointed as the director of the Curie laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.

The early researches by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie often had to be performed under difficult circumstances and due to poor laboratory arrangements both had to undertake much teaching to earn a livelihood. They were inspired by Henry Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity Curies also came up with the isotopes of polonium and radium. Marie Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and careful study of its properties, particularly therapeutic properties.

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