Maria
Sklodowska
Curie
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an
extraordinary
person
and
a
brilliant
scientist
.
She
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polonium
and
radium
and
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the
first
person
in
the
world
to
win
two
Nobel
prizes
.
Maria
____________________
born
on
November
7
1867
in
Warsaw
,
Poland
.
She
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a
brilliant
student
and
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from
high
school
in
1883
,
when
she
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15
years
old
.
She
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to
study
at
university
,
but
this
____________________
almost
impossible
for
a
woman
in
those
days
.
So
,
for
a
time
,
she
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the
"
Floating
"
University
in
Warsaw
.
It
was
____________________
the
floating
university
because
the
teacher
and
students
met
for
classes
in
a
different
place
every
night
.
They
had
to
do
this
because
the
classes
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illegal
and
it
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very
dangerous
to
attend
them
.
Maria's
family
did
not
have
much
money
.
So
,
Maria
____________________
to
work
to
pay
for
her
older
sister's
medical
studies
at
the
Sobornne
,
a
famous
university
in
Paris
.
Then
,
later
,
when
she
became
a
doctor
,
her
sister
would
pay
for
Maria´s
studies
.
So
,
Maria
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with
a
rich
family
,
teaching
their
small
children
for
some
years
.
In
her
free
time
,
she
taught
poor
farm
workers'
children
to
read
and
write
.
In
1891
,
Maria
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studying
at
the
Sobornne
and
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her
name
to
Marie
.
Maria
worker
very
hard
and
,
in
1893
,
she
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first
in
her
master's
degree
in
physics
.
In
1894
,
she
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second
in
her
maths
degree
.
Some
professors
____________________
to
pay
for
her
studies
.
Marie
____________________
to
continue
her
research
and
get
a
doctorate
,
but
she
____________________
a
laboratory
to
work
in
.
A
friend
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her
to
Pierre
Curie
,
who
had
a
space
in
his
small
laboratory
.
Marie
and
Pierre
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a
passion
for
science
and
,
through
working
together
,
they
fell
in
love
and
____________________
.
Marie
and
Pierre
____________________
as
a
team
and
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each
other
in
the
field
of
science
.
They
had
two
daughters
,
Irene
and
Eve
.
Marie
had
to
work
very
hard
to
take
care
of
her
children
and
complete
her
doctoral
thesis
.
Marie
gave
money
back
to
the
university
to
help
other
poor
students
to
study
.
In
1903
,
Marie
became
the
first
woman
to
receive
adoctorate
in
France
.
Her
discoveries
-
polonium
named
after
her
home
country
and
raium
,
meaning
ray
in
Latin
-
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the
world
of
science
forever
.
