Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie :- A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on Radioactivity. She was the first woman and first person to win a Nobel Prize, ,the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
She was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw in the Kingdom of Poland which was a part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henry Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
At a Warsaw laboratory, in 1890–91, Maria Skłodowska did her first scientific work
To have a quick glance about Madam Curie
Born - Maria Salomea Slkodowska on 7th Nov 1867
Birth Place - Poland
Citizenship- France
Died -4th July 1984
Fields- Physics and Chemistry
Institution - University of Paris
Doctoral Advisor -Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral Students -Andrei Louis
Research -Radioactivity ,Polonium , Radium
Notable Awards -Nobel Prize Physics (1904
Davy Medal (1903
Matteucci Medal (1904
Elliott Cresson Medal (1909
Elbert Medal (1910
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1910
Willard Gibbs Award (1921
Spouse - Piere Curie
Children - Irene Joliot -Curie
Eve Curie
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