Marie Curie

Full name-

Marie Skłodowska Curie

Born-

7 November 1867

Died-

4 July 1934

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium, and radium.
4. While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames, never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered in 1898 polonium, after her native country.

• Awards-

1. Nobel Prize in Physics (1903)
2. Davy Medal (1903)
3. Matteucci Medal (1904)
4. Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
5. Albert Medal (1910)
6. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)
7. Willard Gibbs Award (1921)