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Date of Birth
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07-November-1867
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Place of Birth
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Warsaw
(Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Voivodeship - II RP)
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Nationality
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France, Poland
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Also know as
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Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Madame Curie, Maria Salomea SkÅ‚odowska, Madam Curie, Marie SkÅ‚odowska Curie, Maria SkÅ‚odowska, ΜαÏία Σαλώμη Σκουοντόφσκα-ΚιουÏί, Μαντάμ ΚιουÏί, ΜαÏία Σκουοντόφσκα, Maria Salomea SkÅ‚odowska-Curie, Μάνια, ΜανιοÏσια, ΑντσιουπÎτσιο, ماري سكلودوÙسكا كوري â€, ماريا سكلودوÙسكا, Maria Salomea SkÅ‚odowska, Maria SkÅ‚odowska-Curie, 居禮夫人, 瑪麗亞·斯克羅德沃斯å¡, 瑪麗亞·斯克沃多夫斯å¡-居禮, 瑪麗亞·斯克洛多夫斯å¡, é³çš„æ¯è¦ª
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Profession
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Physicist, Chemist, Scientist
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Quotes
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- "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."
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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.
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