Marie Curie Research Paper

Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Poland, she was the youngest of the five other children in her family. Her father was a math and physics teacher, and her mother was a principal. Marie’s parents highest priority was their children's education, all of their children went to school. Her father made up games to help his children learn geography. He read poems to them and taught them the five languages he knew.
Then her mother became ill with a disease called tuberculosis. On to of that her father got fired from his teaching job. To make money he started a boarding school in the family home, the house became overcrowded, noisy and unclean. This overcrowding made sickness spread faster, and soon enough Marie’s sister, Zosia became sick with typhus and died.
Then about four years after that her mother died from her tuberculosis. This caused her to become deeply depressed, her teacher thought that Marie should stop going to school for a year. In response her father sent her to an even harder Russian school. In her family you did not stop learning. This turn of events paid off for Marie, because in 1883 she graduated high school at the top of her class at the age of fifteen.
Finally her father said she could have a break. Because she was too young to get married and …show more content…
Only 23 of them were women, there was no french world that meant female student. Because few women ended up going to college in France. Marie also had to learn more french than her father had taught her as a child, because it was hard to understand the people who spoke french. All of this and Marie called it one of the best times of her life. All that she cared about was her studies, and classes. Then all of her work payed off on her final exams in science because Marie had the best test results. She had finished her schooling, she would go back to Warsaw to care for her