Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Awarded the Prize “in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium polonium, by the isolation of radium the study of the nature compounds of this remarkable element.”

French chemist. Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. In 1891, she went Sorbonne where she obtained Licenciateships in Physics the Mathematical Sciences. She succeeded her husb as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903. And following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 in France.