Marie Curie Born: Pioneer of Radioactivity Arrives
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867 when Poland didn't officially exist — it had been partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Women weren't allowed to attend university in Russian-held Poland, so she enrolled in secret at what was called the Flying University, a network of illegal classrooms. She saved enough to get to Paris and became the first woman to earn a physics doctorate in France. She discovered polonium, named after the country that had ceased to exist. Then she discovered radium.
November 7, 1867
159 years ago
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