Marie Sklodowska was born Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She was raised by two teachers who supported the idea of a good education. She was a great student and was always willing to learn but the education she desired was not available in Poland so when her sister, Bronya, went to Paris, Marie followed. Marie went to school in Paris to get a teaching diploma in mathematics and physics and then to return to Poland. She didn’t live with her sister and new brother-in-law because she liked the freedom she had in an apartment of her own. After 3 years of living in Paris, she received a diploma in physics and mathematics.
Pierre Curie was an internationally known physicist but not well known in the French scientific community. His only dream was to devote his life to his scientific work. He worked as the head of a laboratory at the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry. He lived for his research about crystals and the magnetic properties of the body at different temperatures. In 1895, Pierre and Marie were married in Sceaux where Pierre was born. . With the money given as a wedding gift, they bought two bicycles which they rode quite often. They used the bike rides as a way to relax their minds after a hard day. Other than that, their world revolved around their scientific studies.
Pierre was pushed by his wife and parents to submit his doctoral thesis and in which case he did. Marie got her teaching diploma as well. Their first daughter, Irene was born in 1897. Through Pierre’s position at the school, he managed to get permission for Marie to use the school laboratories. This helped persuade Marie the find a topic for her doctoral thesis.
Marie decided to start an investigation about the mysterious “uranium rays”. This theory wa...
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...f being able to support herself. She was appointed to take Pierre’s place as head of the laboratory. With this, she became the first female teacher at Sorbonne.
In 1911, she won a second Noble Prize in chemistry, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." Some biographers said this was unfair and they thought she had already been awarded for the discoveries of radium and polonium by her first Noble Prize even though it wasn’t stated specifically.
In the last ten years, Marie was able to see her daughter continue her research with her husband, Frederic Joliot. She lived to see artificial radioactivity but not to see them awarded with a Noble Prize. Marie died of leukemia on July 4, 1934.
As child, Margaret was raised primarily by her mother and grandmother; her father had been taken hostage in Dijon, Burgundy when she was only a few years old. With her mother in charge of her education, Margaret was able to study with the same tutors who taught her brothers until the age of fift...
Another point that the author, Robert Nemes, uses to support his thesis is the education situation in Germany. One of the most important issues for women was education; women were not allowed in Universities. Nemes claims that the discussions about this topic resulted in the need for a teacher-training institute for women. Nemes introduces Andras Fay and tells us that he was an advocate for education for women but that he “sought to keep women out of the expanding public sphere”. This tells us that even people that supported women were skeptical about letting them take control of their own lives, which puts Hungarians in a very difficult situation.
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Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1851, into a wealthy Catholic family in St. Louis Missouri. As a little girl, her father died a few years later in 1855 and was raised at home with her other sisters and mother, strong willed and prominent women who believed in self sufficiency. Soon, on June 9, 1870, Chopin married a man named Oscar. She graduated from St. Louis convent school. In the meanwhile, Kate was soon busy by the occupations of a being a mother and wife to the prestigious business man, Oscar whom she married. Throughout this escapade of life, Kate was forced to relocate often due to her husband’s change of business. Although, it was difficult to build upon these circumstances, Kate managed a small farm and plantation farm to keep things running. Even through these circumstances, Kate pulled through only to discover that all these locals would soon be her inspirations and se...
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In Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself, Frances Power Cobbe retold her experience at a fashionable English boarding school. Other female students and she gained an education at this institution where they were taught general education courses, foreign languages, and even to play musical instruments. This autobiographical work was monumental in female advancement during the Victorian era. From male perspectives women were only needed to take care of a household and were certainly not intended to intellectually progress on the ...
college for a degree in French, and when she graduated they pushed her again to go into
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