| Curie, Marie Originally Manja Skłodowska. 1867-1934. Polish-born French chemist. She shared a 1903 Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre Curie (1859-1906), and Henri Becquerel for fundamental research on radioactivity. In 1911 she won a second Nobel Prize for her discovery and study of radium and polonium. |
A French chemist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, born in Poland. With her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the element radium.
Note: Marie Curie was the first major female scientist of modern times.
Note: Marie Curie was the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry).