Marie Curie
The first women to win a Nobel Prize — and the only person to win it in to different sciences.
A historical portraitof Marie Curie, the pioneering physicist and chemist known for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity.
Timeline of Marie Curie's Life:
- 1867 – Born in Warsaw, Poland
- 1891 – Moved to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne
- 1895 – Married physicist Pierre Curie
- 1898 – Discovered the element polonium and radium
- 1903 – Won the Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel)
- 1911 – Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium
- 1914_1918 – Developed mobile X-ray units during World War 1
- 1934 – Died from aplastic anemia, likely caused by prolonged radiation exposure
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."— Marie Curie
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