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Marie Curie Mixed Science and Sex, And 9 Other Surprising Facts About Famous Chemist 11/07/2013 08:26 am ET | Updated Nov 07, 2013 1.6 K ? ? ? ? ? ? Macrina Cooper-WhiteAssociate Science Editor, The Huffington Post ? Christie’s/Wikimedia Commons Happy Birthday, Madame Curie! Marie Curie was born this day in 1867. You might know her as a pioneering chemist and physicist — the first woman in Europe to receive a Ph.D. in physics. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her research in radioactivity, and the first person ever to win two Nobels. But have you heard about what she did to help during World War I? Do you know about the salacious gossip she stirred up with her sex life? Who was the real Marie Curie, and what was she like? Here are ten facts that might surprise you: FACT #1. She was a whiz kid. Marie, born Maria “Manya” Salomea Sk?odowska, graduated from high school at age 15. She was first in her class. Marie Curie at age 16. FACT #2. She was a rebel. Maria let nothing stand in the way of her education. After high school, in the 1880s, she attended Warsaw’s “Floating University,” an illegal, underground night school run by a handful of young Poles. Classes met in changing locations to avoid discovery by the Czarist authorities. Once Maria had the funds, she headed to France to study at the Sorbonne, since women could not attend university in Poland. This is when she changed her name to its French version, Marie. She lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Dr. Kazimierz Dluski, who noted Marie’s independent spirit in a brusque letter to her father: Ms. Marie works very diligently. She spends nearly all day at the Sorbonne, we usually only see her in the evening. She is a very independent person, therefore though you named me her official guardian, she not only shows me little respect, but also refuses to listen. She cares about my authority as much as she would care about a torn shoe. FACT #3. Science ran in the family. Her grandf