The curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in honour of her and Pierre Curie (although the commission which agreed on the name never clearly stated whether the standard was named after …

Dec 8, 2025 · Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different …

Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific …

Dec 23, 2025 · Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

Nov 7, 2011 · Marie Curie won not just one Nobel Prize in her lifetime, but two, for her groundbreaking work in radioactivity. • Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, to schoolteacher …

Marie Curie successfully created a large laboratory devoted to research into radiation and studies of its biological effects. The Radium Institute in Paris was inaugurated in 1914.

A two-time Nobel laureate, Marie Curie is best known for her pioneering studies of radioactivity.

Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a place in the Pantheon for her own achievements. Marie Curie's life as a scientist was one which flourished because of her ability to observe, deduce …

Mar 5, 2024 · Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honors twice.

Read a short biography about Marie Curie. Follow her life story from birth, to her marriage to Pierre Curie, and the reasons why she was awarded two Nobel prizes.