Maria Sklodowska later known as Marie Curie was born on November 7 1867 in Warsaw. Curie was the youngest of 5 children following siblings zosia, jozef, bronya and hela. Both of Curies parents were teachers. Her father was a math and physics instructor. When she was only 10 Curie lost her mother to tuberculosis.Marie riceived a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. As university education was not accessible to women at that time. She studied clandestinely at warsaw's floating university, a secret underground educational network. It's courses were held throughout the city, often changing location to prevent the Russian authorities from the teachers and students. In 1891, Marie followed her elder sister to study in Paris. At the sorbonne she earned two degrees. One in maths and one in physics. Studying by day and tutoring by night to pay for her education. Three years later in Paris Marie met her research partner and future husband Pierre Curie, a tutor at the school of physics and chemistry. When they married in 1895, Curie changed her name to Marie Sklodowska Curie.