Marie Curie was able to begin work. Their mutual passion for science brought them increasingly closer, and they began to develop feelings for one another. Eventually Pierre Curie proposed marriage, but at first Skłodowska did not accept as she was still planning to go back to her native country. Curie, however, declared that he was ready to move with her to Poland, even if it meant being reduced to teaching French. Meanwhile, for the 1894 summer break, Skłodowska returned to Warsaw, where she visited her family. She was still laboring under the illusion that she would be able to work in her
Curie Curie The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in "Nature" at the time, it was named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Curie as well. It was originally defined as "the quantity or mass of radium emanation in equilibrium with one gram of radium (element)" but is currently defined as: 1 Ci = decays per second after more accurate measurements of the activity of Ra (which has a specific activity of .) In 1975 the General Conference