What important things happened in Marie Curie's early years?

Answer 1

Marie Sklodowska had a difficult childhood in Poland. Her parents struggled financially due to their opposition to the government, which cost them their property and made it difficult for them to make a living; further, she lost her mother, who died of tuberculosis when Marie was only twelve. Maria wanted to study math and physics (her father taught both subjects), but there was barely enough money for her older siblings to study. She had to take a job as a governess to earn money for school (which she eventually did).

And one other thing that happened early in her life-- she fell in love with a mathematician. But her family disapproved of the man she wanted to marry, because he did not make much of living. The opposition from her family ultimately doomed the relationship. In 1891, she finally agreed to join her sister in Paris, France and start a new life there. It was while she was working and studying in Paris that she met the scientist Pierre Curie, the man she would eventually marry.