Things to learn from Marie Curie
There have been many new frontiers in the world of science 1903 when Marie Curie won her first novel prize. It is easy to imagine the struggles Marie Curie has gone through in that era when today we are still debating on the lower sex ratio of women in the STEM field. She was a woman of change, who revolutionized the science field in merely 4 years with her consistent work on radioactivity. Today on her birthday, let's recall her experiences we can still learn from.
Fighting and resistance
She was born into a Polish family at the time when Warsaw was under the Russian regime. She was the youngest other 5 sisters and a very academic-oriented person. Unfortunately, her mother died when she was very young, merely 8 years old but the girl was a fighter. Studies were her only way out of the grief, living in wartime without the love of her mom. She studied hard for years and passed highschool. She didn’t stop there, her dreams, her passion was to become a scientist but at that time Women were not allowed to study in universities, therefore, she took a secret undergraduate program and enrolled herself in a floating university.
Persistence
Studying at a floating university was not enough for her since there were not many advancements in the science field in Poland during the time of wars. She…
