Curie, Marie
Born: Nov 07, 1867 AD
Died: 1934 AD, at 66 years of age.
Nationality: Polish
Categories: Chemists, Physicists
Died: 1934 AD, at 66 years of age.
Nationality: Polish
Categories: Chemists, Physicists
French (Polish-born) chemist and physicist
with Pierre Curie, co-discovered elements polonium 1898, radium 1898
discovered radioactivity of thorium
1895 - Wife of Pierre Curie
1906 - 1st woman to teach at the Sorbonne
1910 - with Andre Debierne, co-discovered pure metallic form of radium
1903 - Nobel Prize in Physics
1911 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1934 - Died of leukemia due to longtime research exposure to radioactivity
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