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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 th…
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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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2026· 26 entries
Vivir Ediciones: Marie Curie referente mujeres Fuenlabrada
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The Bolton News: Marie Curie urges councils to waive council tax for terminally ill residents
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Ecns.cn: Former Huawei 'Top Mind' to pursue post-doctor degree in Sweden on Marie Curie Fellowship
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India Today: Quote of the Day by Marie Curie: Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must...
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Sortir à Paris: Cuando Pierre y Marie Curie investigaron a una médium: la extraña historia de Eusapia Palladino en París
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Sortir à Paris: When Pierre and Marie Curie Investigated a Medium: The Curious Case of Eusapia Palladino in Paris
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Puente de Mando: Launch of the ship “Marie Curie” at the port of Palma
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Mshale: Marie Curie's Periodic Pantry: Beryllium Selvaggia Lucarelli (fv1yLi7NX1)
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Herald.Wales: London Marathon “Daffodil Runner” statue finds permanent home at Marie Curie hospice
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El Cronista: Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist: "The best life is not the one that lasts the longest, but the one filled with good deeds"
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Radio Mitre: Marie Curie, científica polaco-francesa: “La mejor vida no es la que más dura, sino la que está repleta de buenas acciones”
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County Times: 50-mile baton relay between Morrisons supermarkets to support Marie Curie
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El Cronista: Marie Curie, ganadora de dos Premios Nobel: “La mejor vida no es la más longeva, sino aquella que está repleta de buenas acciones”
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Onmanorama: Kerala researcher wins prestigious ₹1.5 crore Marie Curie Fellowship
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Hoodline: Napa's Valley Players Bring Marie Curie and a Seance to the Stage Aug. 9
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Bluewin: "Ugly Giant Head": Marie Curie Becomes the Target of Streamers
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ArchDaily: Galería de Edificio de oficinas Marie Curie / Proof of the Sum - 7
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BirminghamWorld: Volunteers needed as Marie Curie expands hospital companionship service
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mariecurie.org.uk: Marie Curie Hospital Companions Service
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Marie Curie: 'Nothing in life is to be feared...'- Inspiring life lessons on courage, curiosity, and the power of understanding by one of the greatest ...
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Indiatimes: Marie Curie refused to patent radium and gave away a fortune: The shocking reason still stuns scientists today
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Yahoo: How Scientist Marie Curie Broke Barriers as the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize
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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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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Marie Curie takes center stage at the Black Box Theatre
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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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2019· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““Women are weaker intellectually [than men]. Of course, there are some Marie Curies, though that is rare.”” Unclear.
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2011· 2 entries
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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2007· 1 entry
A Paris Metro station (in Ivry) was renamed from Pierre Curie to Pierre et Marie Curie
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1996· 1 entry
And conferred by the Polish Chemical Society
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1995· 3 entries
In honour of their achievements, the remains of both were transferred to the Paris Panthéon
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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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1994· 1 entry
The Bank of France issued a 500-franc banknote depicting Marie and Pierre Curie
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1962· 1 entry
That a doctoral student of Curie's, Marguerite Perey, became the first woman elected to membership in the academy
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1935· 1 entry
Before the Radium Institute, which she had founded in 1932
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1934· 24 entries
Died 1934-07-04.
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“Opis: odpowiedź na propozycję rządu, aby owdowiała Skłodowska-Curie i jej dzieci otrzymywały pensję po ojcu.”
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“Nie miałam na sobie żadnej nadzwyczajnej sukni ślubnej i tylko garstka przyjaciół była obecna na ceremonii. (…) Nie chcieliśmy nic więcej, jak niewielkiego kąta, w którym można by mieszkać i pracować.”
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“Moim najgorętszym marzeniem jest powstanie Instytutu Radowego w Warszawie.”
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“Opis: o godzeniu pracy z macierzyństwem.”
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“Ja zaś myślę, że w każdej epoce można mieć życie interesujące i użyteczne, a o to głównie chodzi, aby go nie zmarnować i móc sobie powiedzieć, jak Romain Rolland (autor Jean-Christophe) „Jak tylko mogłem.”
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“Człowiek nigdy nie ogląda się na to, co zrobione, ale na to patrzy, co ma przed sobą do zrobienia.”
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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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“Opis: o promieniowaniu uranu i toru.”
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“Niech każdy z nas, jak jedwabnik, tka swój kokon i nie żąda wyjaśnień, po co i na co. Jeżeli robota nasza będzie dobra, to powiemy sobie, żeśmy się nie gorzej od jedwabników zachowali. Reszta zaś nie od nas zależy.”
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“Rad nie powinien wzbogacić nikogo. Należy do wszystkich ludzi.”
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“Nikomu z nas życie, zdaje się, bardzo łatwo nie idzie, ale cóż robić, trzeba mieć odwagę i głównie wiarę w siebie, w to, że się jest do czegoś zdolnym i że do tego czegoś dojść potrzeba. A czasem wszystko się pokieruje dobrze, wtedy kiedy najmniej się człowiek tego spodziewa.”
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“W nauce nie powinniśmy się interesować ludźmi, lecz faktami.”
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“Smutne książki można wytrzymać, tylko kiedy się jest młodym.”
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“Czasem mi się wydaje, że praca dzieci w szkole dzisiejszej jest tak nadmierna, że lepiej dzieci potopić, niż uczyć w obecnych szkołach.”
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“Opis: po otrzymaniu Nagrody Nobla.”
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“Opis: o początkach pracy naukowo-badawczej.”
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“Inne tłumaczenie: Wierzymy zatem, że substancja, którą wydobyliśmy z blendy smolistej, zawiera metal jeszcze nieopisany. Jeśli potwierdzi się istnienie tego nowego metalu, proponujemy, żeby nazwano go „polonem”, na cześć kraju, z którego pochodzi jedno z nas.”
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“Przytem poszukiwanie czystej wiedzy jest jedną z istotniejszych potrzeb ludzkości.”
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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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Career landmark: funeral.
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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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“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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1931· 1 entry
Curie was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1930· 1 entry
Was elected to the International Atomic Weights Committee, on which she served until her death
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1929· 1 entry
Succeeded in equipping the Warsaw Radium Institute with radium; the Institute opened in 1932, with her sister Bronisława its director
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1927· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1927).
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1925· 1 entry
Visited Poland to participate in a ceremony laying the foundations for Warsaw's Radium Institute
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1923· 1 entry
Wrote a biography of her late husband, titled Pierre Curie
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1922· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the French Academy of Medicine
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1921· 4 entries
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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1920· 2 entries
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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1915· 1 entry
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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1914· 1 entry
Where research was conducted in chemistry, physics, and medicine
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1913· 1 entry
And was welcomed in Warsaw but the visit was mostly ignored by the Russian authorities
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1912· 1 entry
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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1911· 4 entries
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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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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The French Academy of Sciences failed, by one or two votes, to elect her to membership in the academy
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1910· 2 entries
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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1909· 2 entries
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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1907· 1 entry
Awarded Actonian Prize (1907).
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1906· 2 entries
“Opis: w dzienniku pisanym po śmierci Piotra Curie, 14 maja 1906.”
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The first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris
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1904· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1904).
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1903· 3 entries
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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1902· 1 entry
Visited Poland on the occasion of her father's death
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1900· 1 entry
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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1898· 1 entry
Awarded prix Gegner (1898).
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1896· 1 entry
Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emitted rays that resembled X-rays in their penetrating power
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1895· 2 entries
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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1894· 2 entries
“Opis: odpowiedź na propozycję małżeństwa Piotra Curie, początek 1894 roku.”
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Studied at University of Paris, Master of Science (1894).
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1893· 3 entries
Was awarded a degree in physics and began work in an industrial laboratory of Gabriel Lippmann
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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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1891· 1 entry
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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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-11-07.
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