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Thursday, 28 February 2019

MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie (7 November - 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She was born in Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia.

Monday, 7 January 2019

MONET: French Impressionist Artist

On 14 November 1840 a second son was born to Adolphe and Louise-Justine Monet of 45 Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement (district) of Paris. Both parents were second-generation Parisians; they had the baby christened Oscar-Claude at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and called him Oscar for short. Oscar's early years were permeated (filled) with music, on account of his mother's talent as a singer. No one has managed to ascertain (make sure of) what his father did, though he may have been in business.

(From the book: Monet the ultimate impressionist by Thames & Hudson)