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Marie Curie

Marie Curie is celebrated as a pioneering woman in science, being the first to win Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Her journey included overcoming significant obstacles, such as studying at a clandestine university due to restrictions on women, and making personal sacrifices for her education. Curie's legacy is marked by her contributions to science, her refusal to patent her inventions, and her tragic death from radiation exposure.

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Marie Curie

Marie Curie is celebrated as a pioneering woman in science, being the first to win Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Her journey included overcoming significant obstacles, such as studying at a clandestine university due to restrictions on women, and making personal sacrifices for her education. Curie's legacy is marked by her contributions to science, her refusal to patent her inventions, and her tragic death from radiation exposure.

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Marie Curie is recognized as the symbol of the woman of science.

Her status as the first


person to win the Nobel Prize in two different specialties (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in
1911); her generosity in refusing to patent her inventions so that they would be available to
the entire scientific community; her death caused by excessive exposure to radiation; and
even her affair with Paul Langevin after the death of her husband Pierre, have contributed to
the legend.

We must also add the sacrifices she had to make to learn, risking her safety to pursue
studies that women were prohibited from.
Maria had a narrow childhood and youth. Her parents had lost her property for participating
in the Polish nationalist uprisings for independence from Russia. After graduating from high
school at the top of her class, at just 15 years of age, she experienced the frustration of not
being able to enter the University of Warsaw, an institution that did not admit women.

Maria then enrolled as a student at a very peculiar university. It was a clandestine


university, floating or flying, that frequently changed places for her classes, which were often
taught in the students' private residences.

Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, more than 5,000 young
Poles were trained under this modality, including the writer Zofia Nałkowska and the Jewish
doctor and pedagogue Janusz Korczak.

With 24-year-old Maria, she and her older sister, Bronya, decided to go to Paris with a
"ladies' pact." Maria would work as a governess to pay for Bronya's medical studies and
then she would pay for Maria's, and so they did. In 1891, Maria was finally able to enroll to
study physics, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Paris.

Marie Curie would always fondly remember that her passion for science began in her native
Poland at a forbidden university.

Information taken from: UniVISIONNOTICIAS

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