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   a) The life of modern and early scientists.
   b) Modern and early methods of research.
   c) Life and career of people of the same family.
   d) Conflicts between scientists.
   e) Characteristics of the scientists.

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                          The Two Generations of Scientists

     There are people whose life is a story, and a lesson to others. Behind the few lines
with their names in encyclopaedias there are standing failures and fame, love and bat-
tle, devotion and achievements.
     MARIA SK.LODOWSKA, the future mother of the world famous family, was
very ambitious from her childhood, maybe because of her unusual memory At 16 the
girl won a gold medal in the Russian school in Warsaw, but could not use the chance
to enter a university. Her father lost all his money in an unlucky investment, and
Marie had no other alternative but to work and finance her sister's medical studies in
Paris. Her dream came true in 1891 when she left Poland and entered the Sorbonne.
     The Polish family was far from wealthy, and Sklodowska, working into the night
in her students' room, lived on bread and butter and tea. But she came first among the
students in physical sciences in 1893, second in mathematical sciences a year later. In
the spring of that year she met Pierre Curie.
     Their marriage was a symbol of love and respect, and a partnership which gave
the world the discovery of polonium, so called by Marie in honor of Poland, and ra-
dium.
     Two later events in Marie's life might fail her intensive work: joyful — the birth
of her two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904, and catastrophic — the sud-
den death of Pierre Curie (April, 1906) in a road accident. But they did not It was just
four years later that Marie's basic theory of radioactivity was published. The Nobel
Prize for Chemistry for the isolation of pure radium came to her next year. Unfortu-
nately, Marie knew nothing about either the deadly danger в radiation, or of the lead's
property to prevent it: the experiments were not safe at all.
     Marie Curie, at the highest point of her fame and, a member of the Academy of
Medicine, de-voted her research to the study of chemistry of radioactive substances
and the medical uses of these
     substances. Marie was known and respected the world over, she gave lectures in
Europe and America, and her name meant freedom and equal rights for women, too.
In 1921, Marie with her two daughters, went on a triumphant journey to the United
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