Marie Curie
Marie Curie (1867-1934), born Marie Salomea Skłodowska,married to scientist Pierre Curie, was a Polish-born French scientist. She was a physicist and chemist who is known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She isolated radium and polonium. She was joint winner of Nobel Prize for physics (1903) and winner of Nobel Prize for chemistry (1911).Wisdom & Quotes
- Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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