Bith anniversay of Marie Curie

Last Updated07/11/2021

Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie also known as Madame Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
In 1895 she married the French physicist Pierre Curie, and she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of ""radioactivity""—a term she coined.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

In 1906, she became the first woman to be appointed as a professor at the University of Paris.
Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes.
In 1920 she founded the Curie Institute in Paris, and in 1932 the Curie Institute in Warsaw; both remain major centers of medical research.
During World War I, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.

In 1995, she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon, Paris.
In a 2009 poll carried out by New Scientist, she was voted the ""most inspirational woman in science"". She received 25.1 percent of all votes cast, nearly twice as many as second-place Rosalind Franklin (14.2 per cent).
On the centenary of her second Nobel Prize, Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie; and the United Nations declared that this would be the International Year of Chemistry.
An artistic installation celebrating ""Madame Curie"" filled the Jacobs Gallery at San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) making her the world’s first woman to win the prize.
In 1911, she created history again by becoming the first woman to have won two Nobel awards.
The 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Marie after she managed to produce radium as a pure metal. This proved the new element’s existence beyond doubt.
Davy Medal (1903, with Pierre)[67]
Matteucci Medal (1904, with Pierre)
Actonian Prize (1907)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)
Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society (1921)
The 1935 Nobel in Chemistry went to Irène Curie and her husband and co-researcher Frédéric Joliot for their joint work on the artificial creation of new radioactive elements.
The Curies have received a total of four Nobel prizes, the highest won by a single family.
They also have the unique distinction of having three Nobel-prize winning members in the family."