Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Curie c. 1920
Science
Featured Today
Science
Joseph Görres Lit.West
Giorgio Vasari Art.West
Edward Sabine Science
Grazia Deledda Lit.West
Paul Hermann Müller Science
a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Born
Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died
4 July 1934 (aged 66) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Known for
Pioneering research on radioactivity Discovering polonium and radium
Fields
Physics chemistry
Alma mater
University of Paris ESPCI
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)
Spouse(s)
Pierre Curie ( m. 1895; died 1906)
adultbasic
France
Cause of death
Bone marrow failure, possibly myelodysplastic syndrome or aplastic anemia, most likely from exposure to radiation
Children
Irène Ève
Citizenship
Poland (by birth) France (by marriage)
Doctoral advisor
Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral students
André-Louis Debierne Ladislas Goldstein Émile Henriot Irene Joliot-Curie Óscar Moreno Marguerite Perey Francis Perrin
era
1800+
Thesis
Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances)