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A Short Biography of Marie Curie

Author Name:

Marie Curie

Born As:

Maria Skłodowska

Other Names:

Marie Curie

Born:

7 Nov 1867

Died:

4 Jul 1934




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Chemist and physicist                          
                          
Parents Bronisława and Władysław Skłodowski, five children: Zofia, Józef, Bronisława, Helena and  Maria.
Husband Pierre Curie, two children Irene Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie.                          
First female professor at the University of Paris.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics - 1903, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Davy Medal - 1903
Matteucci Medal - 1904
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1911

Marie is the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes, and the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different science fields.                          
Polonium may have been the first chemical element named to highlight a political question, namely the independence of Poland, her country of birth.

Maria ad husband Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize for Physics - 1903.

Their daughter Irène Curie, later known as  Irene Joliot-Curie with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie, also shared a Nobel Prize for Chemistry - 1935.