See Full Sheet - 100 Years Of Nobel Prize - Marie Curie

Dear Philatelic friend,

POSTE SRPSKE AD will issue third stamp this year:

100 years of Nobel Prize - Marie Curie - on 08.March 2011. There is 1 stamp is set. Face value is 1,50 KM (0,77€).

Maria Sklodowska Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, the fifth child in a teaching family. Her mother suffered from tuberculosis and died when Mary was 12 years. Her father was a free views, while the mother was a zealous Catholic. Finishing high school in 1883, with older sister Bronjislava signed an agreement that will financially support during her medical studies in Paris, in exchange for her sister begins to assist financially in the same way, for two years. Due to an agreement with her sister Mary is employed as teacher for small children.
In 1891 Mary is in Paris, in the Sorbonne registered as students in the department of physics and chemistry, and she also worked. In 1893 has passed as the first in a generation. She worked and continued studying, passing mathematics also in 1894. That year she met her future husband, Frenchman Pierre Curie.


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