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40 Polish Pol. Sci. Y.B. 287 (2011)
Maria Sklodowska-Curie - A Sketch to the Portrait

handle is hein.journals/ppsy36 and id is 287 raw text is: POLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE VOL XL 2011 PL ISSN 0208-7375 2011 - the year of Maria Sklodowska-Curie MARIA SKLODOWSKA-CURIE - A SKETCH TO THE PORTRAIT by Edward Olszewski FAMILY TRADITION AND POWER OF PATRIOTISM Biographers of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, characterizing her features of personality, underline her pragmatism, consequence in action and logical mind. Her studies in the fields of mathematics, physics and chem- istry developed these features of personality and, at the same time, paved her way to achievements on the world's scale. A lot of these features she brought from her family home. Her grandfather, J6zef Sklodowski, was a teacher of physics and chemistry, founder and headmaster of a gymna- sium in Lublin. Her father, Wiadyslaw Sklodowski, was a teacher of phys- ics and mathematics in schools in Warsaw. Her mother, Bronislawa was a teacher, too. Also in her family exact and natural sciences prevailed, much attention was attached to history of Poland and Polish literature. Patriotism and national ideas in a positivist sense demanded labor for homeland mainly through teaching, gaining knowledge and education of a young generation. When she had time, especially in Polish period of education, Maria was interested in literature, sociology, contemporary social thought, first of all, of August Comte, Carl Darwin and Herbert Spencer.

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