And Pierre Curie

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Marie
And Pierre Curie

Marie Sklodowska ( a.k.a.) was born in Warsaw in 1867. Her parents were teachers
who believed strongly in the importance of education. Marie had her first
lessons in physics and chemistry from her father. She had a brilliant aptitude
for study and a great thirst for knowledge; however, advanced study was not
possible for women in Poland. Marie dreamed of being able to study at the
Sorbonne in Paris, but this was beyond the means of her family. To solve the
problem, Marie and her elder sister, Bronya, came to an arrangement: Marie
should go to work as a governess and help her sister with the money she managed
to save so that Bronya could study medicine at the Sorbonne. When Bronya had
taken her degree she, in her turn, would contribute to the cost of Marie's
studies. So it was not until she was 24 that Marie came to Paris to study
mathematics and physics. Bronya was now married to a doctor of Polish origin,
and it was at Bronya's urgent invitation to come and live with them that Marie
took the step of leaving for Paris. By then she had been away from her studies
for six years, nor had she had any training in understanding French. But her
keen interest in studying and her joy at being at the Sorbonne with all its
opportunities helped her surmount all difficulties. To save herself a two-hour
journey, she rented a little attic in the Quartier Latin. There the cold was so
intense that at night she had to pile on everything she had in the way of
clothing so as to be able to sleep. But as compensation for all her privations
she had total freedom to be able to devote herself completely to her studies.
After two years, in 1893, she took her degree in physics, and in the following
year, in 1894, she came second in a degree in mathematics. After three years she
had brilliantly passed examinations in physics and mathematics. Her goal was to
take a teacher's diploma and then to return to Poland. There occurred an event
that was to be of decisive importance in her life. She met Pierre Curie. He was
35 years old, eight years older, and an internationally known physicist, but an
outsider in the French scientific community a serious idealist and dreamer whose
greatest wish was to be able to devote his life to scientific work. He was
completely indifferent to outward distinctions and a career. He earned a living
as the head of a laboratory at the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry
where engineers were trained and he lived for his research int...

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