PART 1

Love, was at its purest sense when Pierre Curie met the then Marie Salomea Skodowska. Marie and Pierre were two geniuses destined for each other. Even with the difference they had, Pierre never did stop pursuing her. He was French, born into an academic and medical family. She came from a poor Polish family during the time of Russian occupation. He who recognized his genius early and had the good sense not to go to school where he felt his spirit would be squashed.  Her life was one of great struggle to make ends meet, especially after her mother died when she was just 9 years old.

Marie at first worked as a governess to help support her family. All her siblings were brilliant and Marie vowed to use her earnings to fund higher education for her older sister.  And so she put off her own ambitions to see her sister on her feet.  As circumstances improved, the time finally came for Marie to have a turn and she enrolled at the Sorbonne, the most academically prestigious institute of the time.  She was awarded a scholarship which she repaid in full upon graduation so someone else could benefit from it.

As a student, Marie took first place honors in Physics and Chemistry and was in the process of deciding her doctoral thesis when a chain of coincidences brought her into the circle of Pierre. Pierre couldn’t help but admire the brilliance of Marie and her potential academic thirst.