Marie Curie Was Banned from University for Being a Woman — She Won Two Nobel Prizes Anyway

In 1883, a 15-year-old girl graduated top of her class in Warsaw. She was the most gifted student her teachers had seen in years.

She was not allowed to attend university. Because she was a woman.

Marie Curie spent the next decade working as a governess, sending money to her sister's education in Paris, and studying in secret at the 'Flying University' — illegal underground classes held in private apartments across occupied Poland.

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