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
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, for their work on rad
Marie Curie
…November 1867 – 4 July 1934) 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…
Propriétés magnétiques des corps à diverses temperatures (Curie's dissertation, 1895)
Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory.
Pierre and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, 1895.