Awards & Winners

Marie Curie

Date of Birth 07-November-1867
Place of Birth Warsaw
(Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Voivodeship - II RP)
Nationality France, Poland
Also know as Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Madame Curie, Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Madam Curie, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Maria Skłodowska, Μαρία Σαλώμη Σκουοντόφσκα-Κιουρί, Μαντάμ Κιουρί, Μαρία Σκουοντόφσκα, Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, Μάνια, Μανιούσια, Αντσιουπέτσιο, ماري سكلودوفسكا كوري ‏, ماريا سكلودوفسكا, Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 居禮夫人, 瑪麗亞·斯克羅德沃斯卡, 瑪麗亞·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居禮, 瑪麗亞·斯克洛多夫斯卡, 鐳的母親
Profession Physicist, Chemist, Scientist
Quotes
  • "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris. She was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.

Awards by Marie Curie

Check all the awards nominated and won by Marie Curie.

1911


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by 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)

1903


Nobel Prize in Physics
(in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.)