30/04/2023
/ Marie Curie /
"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."
"Marie Salomea 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 first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work."
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Native name: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Born: Maria Salomea Skłodowska, November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died: July 4, 1934, Passy, Haute-Savoie, France, Aplastic anemia
Citizenship: Poland (by birth), France (by marriage)
Fields: Physics, chemistry
Institutions: University of Paris, Institut du Radium, École Normale Supérieure, French Academy of Medicine, International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
Alma mater: University of Paris, ESPCI
Known for: Pioneering research on radioactivity, Discovering polonium and radium
Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Davy Medal (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904), Actonian Prize (1907), Elliott Cresson Medal (1909), Albert Medal (1910), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), Willard Gibbs Award (1921), Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1931)
"Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.