Marie Curie was born Marya (Manya) Salomee Sklodowska on Nov. 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. The youngest of five children, she had three older sisters and a brother. Her parents — father ...

Marie Sklodowka Curie (1867 - 1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre, for their work in radioactivity.

Marie Curie, in Paris in 1925, was awarded a then-unprecedented second Nobel Prize 100 years ago this month. AFP / Getty Images. When Marie ... Her father, a science teacher, ...

Marie Curie’s parents were teachers ... Maria received extra science training from her father, and when she graduated from high school at age 15, she was first in her class.

Marie Curie’s life offers some ideas ... Her family encouraged her, especially her father, who awakened her interest in science. He believed she deserved an education — even though in Warsaw ...

Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska from a poor family in Poland, ... Her father had been cut loose a little bit for previous views on the Russian overlords. And so they struggled day to day.

Her father-in-law moved in with the couple to babysit for their two children. After Pierre and Marie Curie shared the Nobel, the Sorbonne gave Pierre a professorial chair; ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century ... My father always encouraged me to go into ...