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Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
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Q7186 refers to Marie Curie, a Polish-French scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries in physics and chemistry during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She matters because her research on radioactivity fundamentally changed our understanding of atomic science and earned her multiple Nobel Prizes, making her one of history's most influential scientists.
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Acting · Warsaw, Poland
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- Duels of History2024
- 100 Years of the Atom — Self (archive footage)2020
- The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World — Herself (archive footage)2013
- Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth — Self2011
- Life Begins Tomorrow — Self (archive footage)1950
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Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kiˈri] ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), better known as Marie Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KURE-ee; French: [maʁi kyʁi] ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] 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".
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 different scientific fields. Marie and Pierre were the first 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.
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1867 births1934 deaths19th-century French chemists19th-century French inventors19th-century French physicists19th-century French women scientists19th-century Polish chemists19th-century Polish inventors19th-century Polish physicists19th-century Polish women scientists19th-century women inventors19th-century women physicists