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Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867-1934) · France · Scientists · Died at 66 · also Russia

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The only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences - physics, then chemistry. She named radioactivity, built the field from scratch, and was ultimately killed by it: the notebooks she wrote in are still too radioactive to handle without lead-lined gloves.

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1994Maria Skłodowska-CurieTribute, sculpture in front of the State Research Institute in Gliwice from 19941967Maria Skłodowska-Curie MuseumTribute, biographical museum in Warsaw, Poland1936Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All NationsTribute, Monument in the garden of St George’s Hospital in Hamburg1934Died4 July 19341927Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiAward1923“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”In their wordsPierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”In their wordsPierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168

1921“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science.”In their words14 May 1921Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921)

Benjamin Franklin MedalAwardJohn Scott AwardAwardWillard Gibbs AwardAward1911Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward1910Albert MedalAward1909Elliott Cresson MedalAward1907Actonian PrizeAward1904Matteucci MedalAward1903Davy MedalAwardNobel Prize in PhysicsAward1898Prix GegnerAward1867Born7 November 1867

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Curie's birthplace at 16 Freta Street in New Town, WarsawCurie's birthplace at 16 Freta Street in New Town, WarsawWładysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890Władysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890Maria (left) and sister Bronisława, c. 1886Maria (left) and sister Bronisława, c. 1886Krakowskie Przedmiescie 66, Warsaw, where Maria did her first scientific work, in 1890-1891Krakowskie Przedmiescie 66, Warsaw, where Maria did her first scientific work, in 1890-1891Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, 1895Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, 1895Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory, c. 1904Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory, c. 1904Pierre, Irène, and Marie Curie, c. 1902Pierre, Irène, and Marie Curie, c. 1902

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  1. All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

    1923, Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162, Own words

  2. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

    1923, Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168, Own words

  3. We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science.

    May 14, 1921, Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921), Own words

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Awards

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi1927
Willard Gibbs Award1921
John Scott Award1921
Benjamin Franklin Medal1921
Nobel Prize in Chemistry1911
Albert Medal1910
Elliott Cresson Medal1909
Actonian Prize1907
Matteucci Medal1904
Nobel Prize in Physics1903
Davy Medal1903
Prix Gegner1898
Honorary Doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
Order of the White Eagle
Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
Knight of the Legion of Honour
72 scientist women names on the Eiffel tower

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Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, she left a partitioned Poland - where universities were closed to women - for Paris, studying physics while half-starving in a garret. With her husband Pierre she isolated polonium and radium from tons of raw ore, sharing the 1903 Nobel in Physics; after Pierre's death she won a second, in Chemistry, in 1911, alone. She built mobile X-ray units for the battlefields of the First World War, then ran the Radium Institute that trained a generation of scientists. The radiation she handled with bare hands for decades destroyed her health, and she died in 1934 - having opened the door to both cancer treatment and the atomic age, without ever quite closing it behind her.

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France
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1867 to 1934 · aged 66

In common with Marie

Albert EinsteinBoth received Matteucci MedalThomas EdisonBoth received Matteucci MedalDmitri MendeleevBoth received Davy MedalNiels BohrBoth received Matteucci Medal

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