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| 1903 Nobel Prize portrait |
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) 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 only woman to win in two fields,
and the only person to win in multiple sciences. 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.
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| Marie and Pierre Curie in the laboratory |
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.
Marie Curie died 80 years ago today.
