Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie
c. 1920
Born	Maria Salomea Skłodowska (1867-11-07)7 November 1867 Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire
Died	4 July 1934(1934-07-04) (aged 66) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France Aplastic anemia
Residence	Poland, France
Citizenship	Poland (by birth) France (by marriage)
Fields	Physics, chemistry
Institutions	University of Paris École Normale Supérieure Curie Institute (Paris) (originally Radium Institute) French Academy of Medicine International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
Alma mater	University of Paris ESPCI
Thesis	Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances)
Doctoral advisor	Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral students	André-Louis Debierne Óscar Moreno Marguerite Perey Émile Henriot
Known for	Radioactivity Polonium Radium
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) Albert Medal (1910) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) Willard Gibbs Award (1921)
Spouse	Pierre Curie (1859–1906) m. 1895
Children	Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956) Ève Curie (1904–2007)
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She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.

Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊri, kjʊˈriː/;French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska], was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, 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. 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 in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, 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 Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.