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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals…

Title couldn’t say it all.

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”

~ Maria Salomea Skłodowska aka Marie Curie
~ Born 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
~ Died 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
~ Russian physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
~ She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
~ Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
~ She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.