Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
Background
- Born in
- Warsaw
- Educated at
- Science Faculty of ParisX LO im. Królowej Jadwigi in WarsawUniversity of Paris
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gabriel Lippmann
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Marguerite Perey
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever co…"
"Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity at the American Institute of Physics"
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considere…"
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1867
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