![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also around this time that she adopted the French spelling of her name – Marie. It was in Paris, in 1894, that she met Pierre Curie – a scientist working in the city – and who she married a year later. She immediately entered Sorbonne University in Paris where she read physics and mathematics – she had naturally discovered a love of the subjects through her insatiable appetite for learning. However, when her sister offered her lodgings in Paris with a view to going to university, she grasped the opportunity and moved to France in 1891. To become a teacher – the only alternative which would allow her to be independent – was never a possibility because a lack of money prevented her from a formal higher education. Born Maria Sk łodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was the youngest of five children of poor school teachers.Īfter her mother died and her father could no longer support her she became a governess, reading and studying in her own time to quench her thirst for knowledge. ![]()
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