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    Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867 and received her early education locally and from her father. She moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne, where she obtained degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie and they married the following year. Together with her husband, Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium through her research into radioactivity. She was the first woman to be a professor at the University of Paris and received two Nobel Prizes, one for physics in 1903 with her husband and one for chemistry in 1911.

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    Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867 and received her early education locally and from her father. She moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne, where she obtained degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie and they married the following year. Together with her husband, Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium through her research into radioactivity. She was the first woman to be a professor at the University of Paris and received two Nobel Prizes, one for physics in 1903 with her husband and one for chemistry in 1911.

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    Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867 and received her early education locally and from her father. She moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne, where she obtained degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie and they married the following year. Together with her husband, Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium through her research into radioactivity. She was the first woman to be a professor at the University of Paris and received two Nobel Prizes, one for physics in 1903 with her husband and one for chemistry in 1911.

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    Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867 and received her early education locally and from her father. She moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne, where she obtained degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie and they married the following year. Together with her husband, Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium through her research into radioactivity. She was the first woman to be a professor at the University of Paris and received two Nobel Prizes, one for physics in 1903 with her husband and one for chemistry in 1911.

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    MARIE CURIE

    Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and
    above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing
    must be attained.

    Biography

    Marie Curie, Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw (Poland) on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a
    secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training
    from her father. She became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and found it prudent 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. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School
    of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the
    Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic
    death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of
    Sciences, the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie
    Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.

    Her early researches, together with her husband, were often performed under difficult conditions,
    laboratory arrangements were poor and both had to undertake much teaching to earn a livelihood. The
    discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant researches and
    analyses which led to the isolation of polonium, named after the country of Marie's birth, and radium.
    Mme. Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient
    quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in
    particular.
    The importance of Mme. Curie's work is reflected in the numerous awards bestowed
    on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and
    honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. Together with her
    husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study
    into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other
    half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in
    recognition of her work in radioactivity. Curie died in Savoy, France, after a short illness, on
    July 4, 1934.

    VOCABULARY:

    PRUDENT:SENSİBLE AND CAREFUL

    OBTAIN:GET OR ACHIEVE SOMETHING

    SUCCEED:1)MANAGE TO DO SOMETHING 2)SUCCEED ANOTHER PERSON


    MEANS’’TO BE THE NEXT PERSON TO HAVE THEIR JOB OR POSITION

    UNDERTAKE:START DOING A JOB AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILTY

    LIVELIHOOD:THE JOB OR OTHER SOURCE OF INCOME THAT GIVES YOU THE


    MONEY TO BUY THE THINGS YOU NEED

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