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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 Empire Russian Empire France France Second Polish Republic Second Polish Republic
Languages
Polish, English, Russian, French, German
date of birth
11/7/1867
place of birth
Warsaw
date of death
7/4/1934
place of death
Sancellemoz
Lived
66 years
educated at
  • University of Paris
    • academic major: mathematics
    • academic degree: Master of Science
    • end time: 1894
  • University of Paris
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Doctor of Science
  • University of Paris
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Master of Science
    • end time: 1893
    • start time: 1891
  • Flying University
  • Science Faculty of Paris
  • 10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw
member of
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
    • start time: 1922
  • International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
    • start time: August 1922
  • Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights
    • start time: 1930
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1910
  • Lwów Scientific Society
    • start time: 1909
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1910
  • Royal Czech Society of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Tiberina
  • Pierre and Marie Curie
position held
  • professor
employer
  • Curie Institute
  • Sorbonne
  • University of Paris
doctoral student
  • Marguerite Perey
  • Óscar Moreno
  • Ștefania Mărăcineanu
  • Emile Henriot
  • Zheng Dazhang
  • André-Louis Debierne
  • Shi Shiyuan
  • Branca Edmée Marques
field of work
  • radium
  • radioactivity
  • polonium
  • physics
  • chemistry
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
notable work
  • Treatise on Radioactivity
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