Get familiar with these groundbreaking physicists. Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Marie Curie was a Polish-born French scientist who, along with her husband Pierre, did pioneering work in radioactivity and discovered the elements radium and polonium. In 1903 the Curies shared with Antoine Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in physics for their studies of radioactivity. In 1911 Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. She was the first person to receive two Nobel awards. Madame Curie was appointed to her husband's position at the Sorbonne after Pierre's death, becoming the first woman faculty member at the Sorbonne in its long history. She also became director of the laboratory of the Sorbonne's Institute of Radium. She died of anemia, caused by excessive exposure to radium. Read more about Marie and Pierre Curie at HowStuffworks.com |
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