Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KEWR-ee;[3] French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.[4]
The answer is Enlightenment philosophers were generally opposed to the Catholic Church and organized religion in general. The Catholic Church was seen as a hindrance of individual freedom and reason because of its dogmatism and insistence on being the only source of truth.
In the year 1666, Samuel Pepys describes the Great London Fire as a terrible fire that had destroyed a large part of London.Pepys was more distressed when he is able to see the fire more closely. He observes how pervasive it is and how much devastation and adversity it has caused.
