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1912 photo of Marie Curie working in her laboratory in Paris
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elements of marie curie
Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate, UK; Globe Atlantic, USA)
Maria Salomea Skłodowska was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children and was known by her family as “Manya.”
A voraciously curious child, she learned to read at the age of four and developed an interest in science, largely influenced by her father, a physics and mathematics teacher. Still no one could…
Source: www.newscientist.com
