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Marie Curie

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About Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".

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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attaine…
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.