Marie Curie

Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

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Marie Curie, born Marya Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw, was a physicist, chemist, and university teacher. She worked in the fields of radioactivity, chemistry, physics, and radium. Curie was educated at the Flying University and the University of Paris. Her doctoral advisor was Gabriel Lippmann. She was married to Pierre Curie and had two children, Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie.

Curie received the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with the Willard Gibbs Award and the John Scott Award. She was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She spoke Russian, Polish, French, and German. Curie died in 1934 and is buried in the Panthéon.

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It sits within the topics 1867 births, 1934 deaths and 19th-century French chemists.

Its subject is documented across 196 Wikipedia language editions.

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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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Lifespan: 1867–1934
Nationality: FR, PL
Role / Field: Physicists, Fyzicky, Chemists, Chemicky, Zinatniece, Chemia
Language: fre, pol, fra
Gender: Female

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Nobel Prizes (2)

The Nobel Prize in Physics1903
“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1911
“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”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: female
Citizenship: Russian Empire
Place of birth: Warsaw
Place of death: Sancellemoz
Spouse: Pierre Curie
Child: Ève Curie
Father: Władysław Skłodowski
Sibling: Helena Skłodowska-Szalay
Occupation: university teacher
Position held: professor
Educated at: University of Paris
Employer: Curie Institute
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: Polish
Religion: agnosticism
Academic degree: doctorate
Doctoral advisor: Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral student: Ștefania Mărăcineanu
Field of work: polonium
Image: Marie Curie (1900) (cropped).jpg
Coat of arms: Dołęga
Residence: Paris
Significant event: funeral

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birth name: Marya Salomea Skłodowska
Commons category: Marie Curie
date of birth: 1867-11-07
date of death: 1934-07-04
topic's main category: Category:Marie Curie
Erdős number: 7
name in native language: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Commons gallery: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Commons Creator page: Marie Curie
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
cause of death: aplastic anemia
IPA transcription: ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska
manner of death: natural causes
archives at: Bibliothèque nationale de France
writing language: Polish
P6482: Marie Curie
described at URL: history.aip.org/exhibits/curie/romleg.htm
handedness: left-handedness
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
relative: Józef Boguski
P8168: Joseph Trumbull
ethnic group: Poles
student: Irène Joliot-Curie
interested in: experimental physics

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Encyclopedic overview

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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