Marie Curie
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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 t
Marie Skłodowska Curie, c. 1920
Curie's birthplace at 16 Freta Street in New Town, Warsaw
Władysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890
Maria (left) and sister Bronisława, c. 1886
Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prizes are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking
Marie Curie
…by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". Curie 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. She and Pierre were the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize…
One story says that Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, which was titled "The Merchant of Death Is Dead", in a French newspaper
Alfred Nobel's will, which stated that 94% of his total assets should be used to establish the Nobel Prizes
Wilhelm Röntgen, who received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the X-ray
The committee room of the Norwegian Nobel Committee