Marie curie

BIOGRAPHY
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, better
known as Marie Curie or Madame Curie, was a
Polish physicist and chemist who became a
French citizen. A pioneer in the field of
radioactivity, she is the first and only person to
receive two Nobel Prizes in different scientific
specialties: Physics and Chemistry.

MAIN AREAS SHE

STUDIED
She immediately entered Sorbonne University
in Paris where she read physics and
mathematics – she had naturally discovered a
love of the subjects through her insatiable
appetite for learning. It was in Paris, in 1894,
that she met Pierre Curie – a scientist working
in the city – and who she married a year later.

INVENTIONS
In 1903 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics for the discovery of radioactive
elements and in 1911 she was awarded a second
Nobel Prize, in Chemistry, for her research on
radium and its compounds.