Marie Sklodowska Curie was one of the first woman scientists to win world-wide fame and win a Nobel prize. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her family was poor and consisted of her mother, a musician, her father, a teacher and her three older sisters and her brother. Her family took in boarders, one of which had a deadly disease, which her mother later died of. She was raised in a family that valued education. She got late start with her education, however, and obtained her license in physics in 1893 and the correspondin ....