![]() ![]() Marie Curie’s achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. “I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.” – Marie Curie The Curies conducted their famous joint research on the radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel. She married Pierre Curie, a French physicist, with whom she would have two daughters: Irene Joliot-Curie and Eve Curie. ![]() She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.īorn Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, she studied at Warsaw’s clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. ![]() She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. ![]()
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