"Marie Sk?odowska-Curie" was a Polish minority in France/Polish and naturalized-French

She was born "Maria Salomea Sk?odowska" in Warsaw, in what was then the Congress Poland/Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University/Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institute (Paris)/Curie Institutes in Paris and Curie Institute (Warsaw)/in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

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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.

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who.

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Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

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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 in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

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Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

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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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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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