Remarkable women who changed the world, part four
Hailey Heseltine
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Marie Curie was born on Nov. 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, to two teachers, Władysław Skłodowski and Bronisława Boguska, as Maria Salomea Skłodowska, though she is better known in modern day as simply Marie Curie.
Curie's childhood was certainly not easy. The political climate in Poland was tense, her parents were poor, and Curie's mother and sister had died when she was just a child. Though her father loved the sciences, especially physics