| Full Name |
Marie Skłodowska Curie |
| Date of Birth |
07 November 1867 |
| Place of Birth |
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Date of Death |
04 July 1934 |
| Place of Death |
Passy, Haute-Savoie, France |
| Citizenship / Country of Residence |
Polish, French |
| Education |
Sorbonne University, ESPCI Paris |
| Profession |
Physicist, Chemist |
| Years of Activity |
Approximately 1890s - 1934 |
| Brief Information |
Marie Curie 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 first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. Her discoveries of polonium and radium laid the foundation for modern nuclear physics and medicine. |