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Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie 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".
Physicist · Chemist · Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934) · physicist · chemist · university teacher · also Marie Curie, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Curie, Madame Curie, Marie Salomée Skłodowska Curie, Maria Salomea Skłodowska
Born 7 November 1867 · Died 4 July 1934 · Q7186
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Curie and her daughter Irène were announced as among the 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower
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The European Central Bank announced that Curie had been selected to appear on the obverse of twenty euro banknotes in a future redesign, were the theme "European culture" to be selected over "Rivers and birds"
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Curie was celebrated in a Google Doodle
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A commemorative 20-złoty banknote depicting Curie was issued by the National Bank of Poland on the 100th anniversary of the scientist receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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A Paris Metro station (in Ivry) was renamed from Pierre Curie to Pierre et Marie Curie
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And conferred by the Polish Chemical Society
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Became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Paris Panthéon, and Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie during the International Year of Chemistry
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The French Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants (OPRI) "concluded that she could not have been exposed to lethal levels of radium while she was alive"
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In honour of their achievements, the remains of both were transferred to the Paris Panthéon
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The Bank of France issued a 500-franc banknote depicting Marie and Pierre Curie
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That a doctoral student of Curie's, Marguerite Perey, became the first woman elected to membership in the academy
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Before the Radium Institute, which she had founded in 1932
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Died 1934-07-04.
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“La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.”
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“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
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Aged 66, at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France, of aplastic anaemia likely from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field ho
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“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
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Curie was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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Was elected to the International Atomic Weights Committee, on which she served until her death
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Succeeded in equipping the Warsaw Radium Institute with radium; the Institute opened in 1932, with her sister Bronisława its director
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1927).
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Visited Poland to participate in a ceremony laying the foundations for Warsaw's Radium Institute
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Wrote a biography of her late husband, titled Pierre Curie
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Became a fellow of the French Academy of Medicine
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Awarded John Scott Award (1921).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1921).
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Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1921).
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Curie toured the United States to raise funds for research on radium
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And the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932; both remain major medical research centres
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For the 25th anniversary of the discovery of radium, the French government established a stipend for her; the previous recipient of such a stipend had been Louis Pasteur, in 1874
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Curie produced hollow needles containing "radium emanation", a colourless, radioactive gas given off by radium, later identified as radon, to be used for sterilising infected tissue
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Where research was conducted in chemistry, physics, and medicine
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And was welcomed in Warsaw but the visit was mostly ignored by the Russian authorities
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The Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911).
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The French Academy of Sciences failed, by one or two votes, to elect her to membership in the academy
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It was revealed that Curie was involved in a year-long affair with physicist Paul Langevin, a former student of Pierre Curie's, a married man who was estranged from his wife
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Won Albert Medal (1910).
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Curie succeeded in isolating radium; she also defined an international standard for radioactive emissions that was eventually named for her and Pierre: the curie
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1909).
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From Pierre Paul Émile Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute, who had been disappointed that the University of Paris was not giving Curie a proper laboratory and had suggested that she move to the Pasteur Institute
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Awarded Actonian Prize (1907).
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The first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris
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Won Matteucci Medal (1904).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Won Davy Medal (1903).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1903).
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Visited Poland on the occasion of her father's death
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Awarded Order of the White Eagle.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh.
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Awarded 72 scientist women names on the Eiffel tower.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow.
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Studied at 10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw.
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Career landmark: professor.
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Career landmark: Participated in 1st Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris.
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Career landmark: Participated in 3rd Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Curie became the first woman faculty member at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and her husband joined the faculty of the University of Paris
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Career landmark: Participated in 5th Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Studied at Flying University.
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Studied at University of Paris, Doctor of Science.
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Awarded prix Gegner (1898).
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Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emitted rays that resembled X-rays in their penetrating power
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Curie married Pierre, with whom she conducted pioneering research on radioactivity—a term she coined
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Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the existence of X-rays, though the mechanism behind their production was not yet understood
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Studied at University of Paris, Master of Science (1894).
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Returned it in 1897 as soon as she began earning her keep
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Studied at University of Paris, Master of Science (1891–1893).
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Was awarded a degree in physics and began work in an industrial laboratory of Gabriel Lippmann
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Curie followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work
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Born 1867-11-07.
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