Biography On French Physicist Marie Curie

Student’s Name: Professor: Institute: Date of Submission: Biography on Marie Curie November 1867 on the seventh day of the month, Maria Sklodowska who was the youngest of five siblings belonging to two educators, Bronislawa and Wladyslaw Sklodowski came into this earth. Through the Polish national uprisings that were meant for the restoration of Poland’s independence, Marie’s family from both sides had lost their fortunes and possessions. This act bought a lot of struggles in getting ahead in life for not only Maria and her siblings but for the current generation as well. Their father taught physics and mathematics, subjects that Maria would later pursue. After the elimination of the laboratories from the polish schools by the Russian authorities, he brought a lot of the equipment and guided his children on their uses. Maris’s mother had died when she was ten years old of tuberculosis in the year 1878. Due to her mother’s demise and that of her elder sister Zofia, she gave up Catholicism and became agnostic. At ten years, she went to the J. Sikorska boarding school and then attended a girl’s gymnasium where she got a gold medal on graduation on the 12th of June 1883. Due to depression, she collapsed and had to stay with her relatives in the countryside for about a year. The following year she went to her father where she also did some tutoring and being a woman, she and her sister Bronislawa were unable to join a normal higher institution of learning and settled for a clandestine Flying University that accepted women. It is here that Maria and her sister made an agreement that, Maria would support Bronislawa financially for her health trainings in Paris and in return, she did the same for Maria a few years later. Maria was employed as a tutor in Warsaw when she was at Szczuki with a rich family for two years. The family was her dad’s relatives. Maria turned down an offer to go live with her sister in Paris for she did not have enough tuition money for it would have taken her over an extended year to be able to reach the necessary amount. However, her father helped her after being able to get a more prestigious position again. All this while she had been educating herself through reading books, being tutored and exchanging letters. She went back home to her father in the early 1889 and continued her work as a governess and was there up to 1891. During those years she went on with her learning at the university and later on began her scientific-practical training in a workshop that was operated by Józef Boguski who happened to be her first cousin. In 1891 she joined the University of Paris where she trained in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. She concentrated too much on her studies that she could forget to eat more often. She learned during the day and taught in the evenings so as to manage her upkeep. In 1893, Marie graduated with a degree in physics after which she begun working while still studying in the manufacturing workshop belonging to Professor Gabriel Lippmann. The fellowship program she had enrolled in helped her obtain a second degree in 1894 leading to her scientific career with the magnetic properties of various strengthens investigations that were contracted for by the inspiration of the NIS (National Industry Society). Notably, it is in this period that she met Pierre Curie an Instructor at the Physics and Chemistry school. It was their shared curiosity in natural sciences that brought them together. On July of 1895, Maria and Pierre got married in a non-religious ceremony. This is after Pierre convinced Marie through a letter to go back to Paris and take on a Ph.D. after being denied a chance to teach at Krakow University because she was a woman. Evidently, through her insistence Curie was awarded her Doctorate in March 1895 through his written research on magnetism and was later endorsed to a lecturer at the physics and Chemistry school. In the same year, Pierre Curie made a decision to look into the rays of uranium as a research field for a thesis. Marie used a technique through her husbands and his brother invention of an electrometer a device that was used to measure electric charges. Here she learned that the rays caused the conduction of electricity around a sample. Her findings results were that the uranium amalgams activity only depended on the present uranium amount. After the birth of her daughter, Irene in 1897, Marie was employed as a teacher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in order to be able to provide support for the family. Due to the lack of a dedicated Lab, the Curies conver...