Muffin Stories - Mrs. Curie (Marie Skłodowska Curie)

When the Paris Industrial Promotion Society asked Maria to research the performance of steel magnet, She was very happy because she wanted to continue her studies in Paris. But her laboratory was so small that she agonized over it. Just then, Professor Kobalsky, a Poilsh physicist, introduced Pierre Curie to her, and they began their researches together. Pierre Curie was a mathematician and physicist. Maria’s enthusiasm led him to fall in love with he. At last Pierre proposed to her and they married. “Pierre, it seems that uranium contains some substance much more powerful than uranium besides itself.“ Maria announced it to the society. The two people’s researches were getting brisker. Pierre borrowed a university warehouse in order to secure s better laboratory. Their hard researches continued for several years even after that. At last they discovered a new element. Pierre and Maria named the element polonium after their country Poland. But their research didn’t cease at this point. One night the Curies went
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