Marie Curie pictured at paintings in her laboratory in Paris, in 1912
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The Components of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel (Fourth Property, UK; Grove Atlantic, US)
ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was once born in Warsaw, then a part of the Russian Empire. She was once the youngest of 5 youngsters, and was referred to as “Manya” by way of her circle of relatives.
She was once a voraciously curious kid who realized to learn on the age of four and evolved a fascination with science, thank you largely to her father, a instructor of physics and arithmetic. Even so, nobody may just…
