| Birth: | Nov. 7, 1867
Warsaw, Poland | | Death: | Jul. 4, 1934 | 
Scientist. She had degrees in mathematics and physics and was the first woman in Europe to receive her doctorate of science. In 1903, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics for the co-discovery (jointly awarded to Curie, her husband Pierre, and Henri Becquerel) of radioactivity. In 1906, she became the first female lecturer, professor and head of Laboratory at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 1911, she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium, the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of radium. Her eldest daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935, the year after Marie Curie died. In 1995, she was the first woman laid to rest under the famous dome of the Pantheon in Paris on her own merits.
Family links:
Spouse:
Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906)
Children:
Irene Curie (1897 - 1956)*
Eve Curie Labouisse (1904 - 2007)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Marie Curie | | | Burial:
The Pantheon
Paris
Paris
Ile-de-France, France |
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1613 |
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-Anonymous
Added: Jun. 17, 2013 |
For the work with your husband Pierre, and later on your own you won two Nobel Prizes, and you had a daughter (Irene) who also won a prize. I don't think any other family won so many of the science Nobel prizes as yours did.
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J.B.
Added: Jun. 13, 2013 |
Bless you dear lady.
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Frank R. Adamski
Added: Apr. 27, 2013 |
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