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THE AWESOME CURIE FAMILY The family tree Marie Curie Pierre Curie Frederic Irene Joliot Curie Eve Curie Maria Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867.? Her father was a teacher and a piano player and her mother was a professor of mathematics and physics. She was the youngest of five children. She had a brother and three elder sisters.When she was four years old one of her elder sisters taught her the alphabet, and Manya (as they called her) learned how to read. In fact, she could read better than Bronya who had taught her. When she graduated from high school she won a gold medal because of her talent and hardwork. At that time Poland was under the control of Russia ,girls were not permitted to attend college. Both Manya and Bronya wanted to go to Paris for futher study, but there was no money to send them away to college. So they made a deal that Manya worked as a governess to make money to send Bronya to school,then when Bronya became a doctor,she could return the favour. 8 years later, Manya came to Paris to begin her studies. Manya changed her name to a French name, Marie. While studying At Sorbonne, she lived in a cold apartment and survived on very little food. She held multiple degrees in various subjects like math, physics and chemistry . Four years later when she graduated she had the highest grades in the class and get a dual masters degree in physics and mathematics. Then she became the first woman instructor at Sorbonne and met anther lecturer Pierre Curie... They got married in 1895. With the money a cousin gave her for a wedding present, Marie bought two bicycles, one for herself and one for Pierre. They pedaled through the French countryside on their honeymoon Reading Partner Honeymoon Pierre and Marie began experimenting together and discovered two new radioactive elements. She named one of them polonium to honor her native country Poland, and the other radiu