he daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and found it inportant to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. Marie finished high school at 15, with the highest honours. She worked as a private tutor for children in Poland before moving to Paris, France at the age of 24 to study mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. Her goal was to get a teacher's diploma and return to Poland. but whene she got to her colledge and was there a litel bit and worked in her husbands labrotory she changed her mind here is a little story of that also how much school ment to her and how she met purrie currie one day when she was in class she stared getting dissey and passe out when she woke up her teacher was there and asked her if sheate lunch he knew that she didn't eat and took her out to eat he asked her do you have any freinds she said no he said well you need freinds i know someone you might be verry well like he asked her if she would come to dinner she said yes when she got there it was a party then her future husband and her met eye to eye and he asked her to wok in his lab she said yes they soon found out they where in love and got married .