Marie Curie: The First Woman in Science to Win Two Nobel Prizes
Marie Curie: The First Woman in Science to Win Two Nobel Prizes
Maria Sklodovskaya-Curie is an incredible woman who not only got into the world of science in the XIX century, when it was only under the control of men, but who turned it upside down. How was the life of the first and still the only scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry twice?
Childhood in Poland: Early Steps Toward Great Science
In Warsaw, which was then part of the Russian Empire, on November 7, 1867, the fifth child appeared in the Sklodovsky family. The friendly sisters Zofia, Jozef, Bronislava, and Helena were joined by their sister Maria Salome.
As the youngest, she was the favorite of the family. She even had the most diminutive names in the family: she was usually called Manya, more gently - Manyusha, but since the cradle her parents have come up with an untranslatable, but playful and sonorous name Anchupecho.