Marie Curie Biography
Marie Curie (née Maria Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sallanche, Savoy, France.
1903 : Won the Nobel Prize in Physics
1911 : Won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie Curie Biography
Maria Sklodowska Curie:
Daughter of Polish intellectuals
Worked as a governess before leaving for Paris 1891
Lives with relatives, pursues further studies and changes her first name into Marie
1893 : Received her diploma in physics (with honors)
1894 : Second diploma in mathematics (with honors)
April 1894 : Met the young physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906)
July 1895 : Pierre and Marie married
1897 : Daughter Irène was born
1895/1898 : Started with her husband her researches on uranium, radioactivity. Found another element which she named "Polonium" (in honor of her homeland Poland)
1900 : First female faculty member at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
1903 : At the Sorbonne she defended her research thesis on analysis of radiation from uranium
1903 : Marie and Pierre curie shared the prestigious Humphrey Davy Medal from England
1904 : Second Daughter Eve was born
1904 : She was allowed to join her husband at the Sorbonne as his research assistant
1906 : Pierre Curie died (killed by a horse-drawn carriage)
1906 : The Sorbonne offered Marie the professorship held by her late husband. Confirmed in 1909
1910 : Declined the award of the Legion of Honor
1914 : Election to the Académie des Sciences
1914/1934 : Till her death of pernicious anemia (caused by years of exposure to radiation)in July 4 1934, she continued her researches together with her daughter Irene and son-in-law Frederic Jolliot Curie
Daughter of Polish intellectuals
Worked as a governess before leaving for Paris 1891
Lives with relatives, pursues further studies and changes her first name into Marie
1893 : Received her diploma in physics (with honors)
1894 : Second diploma in mathematics (with honors)
April 1894 : Met the young physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906)
July 1895 : Pierre and Marie married
1897 : Daughter Irène was born
1895/1898 : Started with her husband her researches on uranium, radioactivity. Found another element which she named "Polonium" (in honor of her homeland Poland)
1900 : First female faculty member at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
1903 : At the Sorbonne she defended her research thesis on analysis of radiation from uranium
1903 : Marie and Pierre curie shared the prestigious Humphrey Davy Medal from England
1904 : Second Daughter Eve was born
1904 : She was allowed to join her husband at the Sorbonne as his research assistant
1906 : Pierre Curie died (killed by a horse-drawn carriage)
1906 : The Sorbonne offered Marie the professorship held by her late husband. Confirmed in 1909
1910 : Declined the award of the Legion of Honor
1914 : Election to the Académie des Sciences
1914/1934 : Till her death of pernicious anemia (caused by years of exposure to radiation)in July 4 1934, she continued her researches together with her daughter Irene and son-in-law Frederic Jolliot Curie
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