Marie Curie's Positive Impact On My Life

Although I never met her, Marie Curie is someone who has inspired me and has had a positive impact on my life. I have always held an unyielding interest in science, but was cast aside by a number of teachers and peers. One excellent example is a ‘friend’ who would mock my interests, belittle anything remotely scientific I said, and would invent false accomplishments to try and make himself seem more superior (he actually tried to make me believe that he beat out renowned professors to get his theory of relativity published in the Canadian archives but couldn’t show it to me because it was “top secret”). Reading about Marie Curie and what she was able to accomplish, despite all the difficulties of being a woman in science in the 1800-1900s,