Mary's father is a math and physics teacher in a middle school, and also an assistant inspector in the local area. Mother is the principal of a girls' school. Before Mary was born, there were three girls and a boy in the family.
Mary is thin, but she is strong and seldom gets sick. She has an extraordinary memory since she was a child, which surprised everyone.
When Mary was 4 years old, her family went to the countryside for the summer. At that time, the third sister Bronia was 7 years old and would go to primary school after the New Year, so her parents taught her to read cards with letters. But Bronia doesn't like seriousness: the description is very formal and solemn. When she studied hard, she asked Manie to be a student and a teacher herself, told her to learn what Manie should read, and pretended to correct her pronunciation.
The 4-year-old Manya has only learned it once and will never forget it.
Sometimes I am wrong, which is what Bronia taught me.
Happy summer vacation is coming to an end. Before returning to Warsaw, bronia took an exam.
Bronia was holding a book in her mouth. When she saw this scene, Manya suddenly grabbed the book in her sister's hand impatiently, steadily: steadily, without any obstacles. Read slowly.
At first, everyone was silent, so Manya went on reading proudly.
Later, she suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. Because everyone was so silent, she wondered if it was a joke. Or are you in trouble?
Mom and dad are all tongue-tied: they can't speak with their mouths open, describing them as unreasonable or afraid. Look at yourself carefully.
Manya thought she was sure to be scolded, so she threw down her book and burst into tears.
"I'm sorry, bronia ... I didn't mean to ... it's too easy to read ..."
Mom quickly picked her up and said, "Don't cry, Manya, you are so smart. When did you read so well? Your father and I are very surprised. "
After this incident, Manya became easier to learn.
However, her parents try not to let her read more books. As a teacher's parents, according to years of experience, children who are too early sometimes have bad consequences.
Since then, my mother has taken special care of Mary and won't let her stay at home all the time. Because she didn't see Mary playing with other children, she always liked to stay at home and study alone. In her study, she looks very focused and happy, just like other children see their favorite candy or toys.
Mother is worried that Mary's cleverness will affect her health.
Mary is always forced to play in the yard. Later, she learned to sneak into her father's study and try not to let her mother see it. In my father's study, there is a big glass cupboard with many mysterious and wonderful things in it, which fascinates little Mary. Those are some long and short glass tubes and strange instruments. Dad teaches math and physics in middle school, which is full of dad's experimental equipment, small scales, minerals, glass tubes, and gold foil (bó) for checking electrical appliances.
Mary often looks up at her father's big glass cupboard quietly, and her heart is full of desire to touch the clean glass tube. She thinks the glass tube is like a fairy's pocket, and the most magical things will appear in it.
At this time, the life of Mary's family has begun to become difficult. My father is an honest teacher, and he doesn't want to use his hands and knowledge to help the Russians teach the destroyed Polish culture. He often disobeyed the headmaster's rules and gave high marks to good students who did their homework and filled out papers in Polish, so he was demoted by the headmaster (x: n). Later, he was relieved of his post as school inspector (D).
Despite the family's financial difficulties, all five children have reached the age of schooling and education, and their parents still send all five children to school. During that time, my mother always sat in a big rocking chair and made clothes and shoes for them. The voice of "wordy" is so loud all day.
Dad began to let some children with poor grades live in their own homes and use the evening time to make up lessons to supplement the family. Originally quiet and warm (xρn): mild and fragrant; Warm. Our home, now with more children, has become as busy and messy as a vegetable market.
Mother's condition deteriorated again in sadness and fatigue. The last thing she said to the children was, "I love you." Dad also soon became thin and old.
Mary became a more silent little girl. From then on, Mary went to her father's study to read those heavy and thick books, and no one bothered her anymore. Mary is more and more addicted to this: addiction. In the book that smells like paper.
The sharp decline in family circumstances not only did not affect Manya, but encouraged her to devote herself to studying hard and win glory for her motherland in disaster and her father under heavy pressure.
At school, although she is two years younger than her classmates, she has a strong self-esteem and a superior memory.
One day in math class, the area of a circle was discussed, and the teacher asked how many digits there were after the decimal point of pi.
Kaya stood up and said, "There are two, which are 3. 14."
The teacher patted the table angrily: "This is well known, I want to know, who knows more?"
The whole class bowed their heads and dared not go out.
Manya stood up, and she replied naturally and fluently in a clear voice:
"The approximate value of pi is between 3. 14 15926 and 3. 14 15927, and the exact value can be expressed as 355 1 13."
The students were dumbfounded: describe the way they were stunned by the shock. Even the math teacher paused for two seconds before breaking the surprisingly quiet classroom.
"Manya, your answer is so good that you can be a mathematician in the future!" Duplicatia said excitedly.
"The mathematician who discovered pi came from China. In the fifth century, he calculated hundreds of digits after the decimal point. They are 3. 14 159248566 ... For convenience, we usually only take the first four digits after the decimal point. "
When Manya answered calmly, there was a burst of "wow" among the students.
Manya is always the first to finish all the homework of the day in the self-study class at school at noon. After finishing her homework, she took the initiative to help those struggling students with their lessons. The students are glad to get her help. The teacher called her a little assistant, and the students said she was a little teacher.
After graduating from Manya Primary School, she walked out of this primary school with the first place in her graduating class. Both the headmaster and the teacher are very sorry: they sympathize with people's unfortunate experiences or unexpected changes in things. I think it's hard to meet such excellent, stubborn, sensible and effective boys again.
"You must enter a public middle school. With your learning ability, you will be admitted to the famous Royal Middle School! " Duplicatia suggested.
In this way, Manya was admitted to a famous royal middle school on Krakow Avenue with excellent results and was completely ruled by the Russian spirit. This is another painful choice for Manie, who has been living in a private primary school with a strong cultural atmosphere in Poland at the primary school stage. But there is no other way.
When Manya 14 was admitted to middle school, her brother Joseph had already graduated from boys' middle school. Joseph was smart and studious in middle school and got excellent grades. Therefore, he won a gold medal.
This achievement not only makes my sisters envy, but also makes my father Skoro Dovski feel proud and gratified. His efforts and love were not in vain. His son was so successful that he decided to support him to go to college.
Just when Joseph was admitted to the medical university, the second sister Bronia was helping her father with the chores at home: small but many. Housework. Her ambition is also to study medicine, and she is determined to become a physician, and like her mother and big sister Sophie, she devoted her life to curing patients. However, Polish universities refused to recruit female students, because her family was in financial difficulties and could not afford to study abroad. Second sister also won a gold medal when she graduated from middle school. This is undoubtedly an incentive for Manya. From the first day she was admitted to middle school, she made up her mind to take home the third gold medal like Joseph and bronia.
In middle school, Manya is outstanding. Wherever she goes, a group of students always look at her with envy and admiration. Because of her cleverness and special perseverance, she is far ahead in all subjects. Teachers in all subjects also attach great importance to her and think that she will become an expert in her own subject field. However, Manya is never proud, and always works towards the goal in her heart.
The better Manya performs in school, the more she is loved by teachers and students, and the more she attracts the attention of an extremely hateful inspector, Ye Mei.
Ye Mei is a German woman with short stature and black hair. Her hair is greasy on her little head, which makes her even more hypocritical.) She strongly advocates the Russianization of Poland, showing friendly appearance to flattering teachers and students, grinning all over her face. For a student with a sense of nationality and tenacious personality like Manya, he is critical in all aspects (tρ): he is too strict in criticizing details. Make things difficult: deliberately embarrass people …
In order to eavesdrop on the students' conversation, Ye Mei always wears a pair of heels and walks like a thief. She noticed the sarcastic laughter of Valerie Qi and Manya, but she didn't hear anything.
Once, Manya walked past her, straightened her chest and snorted gently with her nose. This angered Ye Mei, who immediately stopped Manya and found fault with her.
"Why don't you comb your hair? It is very unseemly and affects the image of the school. " Ye Mei deliberately finds fault.
"Don't want me to anoint? That's not what students should do. "
The students around laughed out loud.
Ye Mei took out a hard comb from his pocket and stood on tiptoe (di m: n) trying to comb and beat Manya's head savagely. However, her short pale yellow curly hair is still willfully scattered on her lively and youthful face. Ye Mei has gone to comb her hair and hit people again. She is simply venting her anger in public.
Manya is already half a head taller than Ye Mei. At this time, she straightened up, half bowed her head, squinted at Ye Mei and smiled contemptuously at her. All the students around me burst out laughing.
Ye Mei roared angrily, "Why are you acting so strange and making them laugh? Don't despise me like this! "
"Since I can't squat down on the ground and look up at you, I can only look at you like this. Are they laughing at me? I am not ridiculous. " Manya said, shrugging her shoulders and spreading her hands like an experienced female diplomat.
Meiben wanted to punish Doby, an unruly student. I didn't expect the little girl to dare to contradict him in public, so she was humiliated out of school, so she roared:
"You're hopeless! Talking to you is casting pearls before swine. "
From then on, Ye Mei opposed Manya in everything, found fault with her and blamed her.
188 1 year, Tsar Alexander II was stabbed to death, and Poland was forced to mourn all over the country. The school ordered students to take off their hair cards, wear plain clothes and prohibit all entertainment activities.
Manya was very happy and danced with Ka Valerie Qi in the classroom to celebrate.
In a blink of an eye, it was the tense stage before graduation. On the stone bench in the corridor of "On the Boulevard" (lánɡ), students are discussing and reviewing in twos and threes. Every day when students meet Manya, they always ask some difficult questions around her. And she will give a clear (x: and) clear answer. Both students and teachers think that she is the best among the graduates.
At this time, Manya has entered the flower season of 16 years old. She looks dignified and elegant, and her white cheeks always look smart and resolute. That short yellow curly hair is slightly naughty and lovely.
1883 June 3rd 10 am. Manya graduated from middle school, and the school held a grand graduation ceremony.
Generally speaking, graduates wear black dresses. The military band played loud music. On the stage sat the headmaster attending the graduation ceremony and Epstein, the governor of Polish education. The audience is all the students and teachers who study hard in all subjects. People who came to attend this lónɡ and warm graduation ceremony, as well as parents of students.
As soon as the loud military music stopped, the headmaster solemnly announced: "The graduation ceremony begins now!" Suddenly, music, drums, horns and applause gathered together and echoed over the auditorium, stirring everyone's heart.
After the flag-raising and singing ceremonies, the most exciting moment came, and the headmaster announced the list of gold medal winners.
"Manya Skoro Dovska!"
Cheer under the stage (hè): Cheer loudly. In the voice, Manya stood up from her seat and slowly walked onto the platform. Her fitted black dress makes her look more energetic: full of energy. Wearing a red rose on the chest and blushing cheeks (jiá). She stood shyly in the center of the podium, and there was a flood of applause and cheers from the audience.
The headmaster personally hung a glittering gold medal on her chest and accepted a large bouquet of flowers from a junior classmate. Manya held flowers in her left arm and respectfully shook hands with the teacher on the stage. When Epstein, the education governor of Poland, congratulated her and shook hands with her, Manya, who had always been strong, could not help but burst into tears.
She turned again and bowed deeply to the teachers and students of the whole school. This is an affectionate bow. The audience included Ka Valerie Qi like her sister, warm teachers who gave their compatriots affection when they were humiliated, friendly eyes of teachers in the ruling country, and students from all over the world who studied together.
In tears, she clearly saw her old father, Skoro Dovski. Today, he is the happiest person and the proudest father. His eldest son Joseph and his second daughter bronia have won back two gold medals for this family. Today, his favorite little daughter brought him a third one! As a father, as a father who is both a teacher and a mother, nothing is more gratifying than seeing her daughter so excellent: she is above her peers. And proud! He couldn't help getting up and strode to his daughter. Manya quickly walked off the platform and presented a big bouquet of flowers to her father.
After graduating from high school, she plans to go to college. However, all universities in Warsaw do not admit female students. In order to earn money, she ran around looking for a job. From time to time, she posted advertisements in the streets and lanes to attract a teacher's career of "teaching rubles for an hour and a half", and from time to time she waited in line in front of the employment agency in Warsaw before dawn.
After about half a year, Mary finally found a job as a tutor in a remote (pì) village more than 0/00 kilometers away from home. Her daily job is to be a nanny for the farmer 10-year-old daughter and a chaperone for the 18-year-old girl. At the same time, teach 7 hours of classes and do 2 hours of chores. She didn't have time to study until after 10 in the afternoon.
Mary has been a governess in the country and the city for six years and suffered a lot. At the age of 24, with the meager salary (X and N) earned by teaching, some money sent by her sister, who is a doctor in Paris, and the support of her father, she finally realized her wish to study in the Faculty of Science of Paris University.
Paris University is called "the temple of knowledge". There are world-famous scholars here, and their lectures are simple and easy to understand: an article or speech is profound in content, but its wording is easy to understand. ; There are also first-class teaching facilities.
However, with the increase of courses and the deepening of learning content, Mary encountered one difficulty after another. She thinks she is proficient in French, but in class, the teacher speaks very fast and often can't speak the whole sentence clearly. She thinks she has a good foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry, but compared with her French classmates, there is a big gap.
In order to catch up with the whole class, Mary doesn't want to waste precious time on the road. She resolutely left her sister's house and rented a small house near the school to live alone. "study, study, study hard!" During the day, she concentrates on learning new lessons; Go to the library to review old lessons in the evening. When the library was closed, I went to a nearby Notre Dame, where I read by street lamps until late at night, and then I went back to my house and studied hard until two or three in the morning with a small oil lamp.
In order to squeeze time, she arranged her personal life as simply as possible. She often eats nothing for weeks, only bread and boiled water. She never goes to a butcher's shop or a restaurant, because going there is both expensive and time-consuming. Sometimes, she actually relies on radishes and cherry (Y and n ɡ) peaches to satisfy her hunger. She fainted several times because of hunger.
Mary took pains and studied hard, and finally achieved excellent results in a short time. By the time she graduated in the fourth year, she got a master's degree in physics and a master's degree in mathematics in the second year.
On the one hand, Mary specializes in mathematics at Sauron University; On the other hand, she accepted the formal research work entrusted by the "French Industry Promotion Association" introduced by Professor Lippmann. This is a study on the magnetism of steel. The salary (chóu) of this job is enough for her to pay off the "scholarship" loan at one time, so Mary is very eager to do it.
However, from the beginning, it was found that it was much more difficult than she had imagined.
First of all, there needs to be a spacious place to analyze mine seedlings and collect metal specimens, but she is embarrassed to occupy all the research rooms of Professor Lippmann, because the professor himself is also conducting several important studies there.
At this moment, a Polish who teaches physics at a university came to see her. After learning about her distress, she said:
"I have a place. You may have heard the name pierre curie ... he is a great scholar. I think he can lend you part of the research room. Anyway, this is a man worth seeing. I'll take this opportunity to introduce you. "
Pierre curie is a scholar, born in Alsace on the Rhine. He has been very clever since he was a child. At that time, he was the experimental director of the Paris School of Physical Chemistry, invented a chemical balance called "Curie Balance", and became famous abroad because he published a paper on the "Curie Theorem" of magnetism.
By borrowing the laboratory, Mary got to know pierre curie.
Their first and most common topic is science. Mary always asks some pertinent questions and listens carefully. Her earnest and modest attitude, unique thinking and quiet and simple manners make her exude a very elegant and intelligent atmosphere.
At that time, Mary was 27.
Pierre curie is a Parisian, and his family has been doctors for generations. My father opened a hospital in Paris and became a university professor.
He was already a young scholar when he met Mary.
At Mary's request, he lent her a laboratory in the school. In this way, they often work together and communicate together. Only then did Mary discover that this calm young man was the discoverer of Curie's Law, that is, the magnetism of magnetic (cí) iron would weaken with the increase of temperature.
Mary trusts old Bill very much. She gradually brought all the big and small things in her life to discuss with him. Listen to his opinion.
They gradually became friends. After the experiment, they often go for a walk in the forests and grasslands along or outside the Seine River. Everyone thinks that they are immersed in love, but in the quiet suburbs and the fresh smell of trees, they have been discussing scientific research plans and solutions to math problems.
They encouraged each other when they met with difficulties.
From 65438 to 0894, Mary spent the happiest summer in her life in love. She finally graduated this year. She can do whatever she wants.
Bill invited her to a restaurant near the school to celebrate her graduation. This restaurant is to their taste. Wooden doors and tables exude the fragrance of trees, and the table is covered with warm red plaid tablecloths and flickering candlelight. Looking out of the window, you can see those old bookstores. At the dinner table, Boolean asked:
"Will you stay in Paris?"
"I may go back to China. When I came out, I promised my father that I would go home after I finished my math degree. " Mary said.
"How about Warsaw?"
She said, "No, there is no vitality, but my father is a teacher. I wanted to be a good teacher since I was a child. Poland needs teachers now. "
Buel thinks that since Warsaw can't let Mary continue to study her major in depth, it's a pity that an excellent woman like Mary only does general science communication work. In his concept of free France, science has no national boundaries. Since Mary can become an excellent scientist, she should not only think about Poland, but also contribute herself to all mankind. At the dinner table celebrating Mary's graduation, Bill and Mary are discussing what a real scientist should do. Candles danced on their young and serious faces.
Bill proposed to Mary and advised her to stay in Paris.
After careful examination, Mary returned to Warsaw to listen to her father's advice and finally decided to marry France and Madame Curie. After graduation 10 months, Mary married Bill and became Marie Curie. That was July 26th, 1895.
Two people live on the fifth floor of apartment 24, Grachette Street. Pierre curie goes to physics school every day, and his wife Mary also goes to the laboratory on campus to do research. In the evening, two people went home hand in hand.
There is only one desk and two ordinary chairs in the room. This is what couples use when eating and reading.
Buel's salary of 300 francs a month is all their income. But Mary, who has always been used to frugality, doesn't feel bitter at all.