Marie Curie - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1903; Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1911
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Marie Curie

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1903
in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1911
in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.
Citizenship
Russian EmpireRussian EmpireFranceFrance
Languages
German, English, French, Polish, Russian
date of birth
11/7/1867
place of birth
Warsaw, Freta Street
date of death
7/4/1934
place of death
Sancellemoz
Lived
66 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • chemist
field of work
  • radium
  • radioactivity
  • chemistry
  • physics
  • polonium
educated at
  • Flying University
  • University of Paris
    • academic degree: Doctor of Science
    • academic major: physics
  • University of Paris
    • academic degree: Master of Science
    • academic major: mathematics
    • end time: 1894
  • University of Paris
    • academic degree: Master of Science
    • academic major: physics
    • start time: 1891
    • end time: 1893
  • Science Faculty of Paris
  • 10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw
employer
  • University of Paris
  • Sorbonne
  • Curie Institute
position held
  • professor
member of
  • Pierre and Marie Curie
  • Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights
    • start time: 1930
  • Royal Czech Society of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1910
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
    • start time: August 1922
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
    • start time: 1922
  • Accademia Tiberina
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1910
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • Lwów Scientific Society
    • start time: 1909
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Emile Henriot
  • Ștefania Mărăcineanu
  • Marguerite Perey
  • Óscar Moreno
  • André-Louis Debierne
  • Zheng Dazhang
  • Shi Shiyuan
  • Branca Edmée Marques
notable work
  • Treatise on Radioactivity
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