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Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
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- Died:
- July 4, 1934 (aged 66) France
- Awards And Honors:
- Nobel Prize (1911) Nobel Prize (1903)
- Notable Family Members:
- spouse Pierre Curie daughter Ève Curie daughter Irène Joliot-Curie
- Subjects Of Study:
- pitchblende polonium radioactivity radium
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Marie Curie, née Maria Salomea Skłodowska, (born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire—died July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France), Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields. (Read Marie Curie’s 1926 Britannica essay on ...(100 of 1235 words)