Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), dem know am simply as Marie Curie, na she be a Polish den naturalised-French physicist den chemist wey conduct pioneering research for radioactivity. 

 Life den career 

 Early years 
Na dem born Maria Skłodowska insyd Warsaw, insyd Congress Poland insyd de Russian Empire, for 7 November 1867, de fifth den youngest kiddie of well-known teachers"Marie Curie Facts". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019. Bronisława, née Boguska, den Władysław Skłodowski.Estreicher, Tadeusz (1938). "Curie, Maria ze Skłodowskich". Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 4 (in Polish). p. 111. Na de elder siblings of Maria (dem nickname Mania) be Zofia (born 1862, dem nickname Zosia), Józef (born 1863, dem nickname Józio), Bronisława (born 1865, dem nickname Bronia) den Helena (born 1866, dem nickname Hela)."Marie Curie – Polish Girlhood (1867–1891) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

 Commemoration den cultural depictions 
As one of de most famous scientists insyd history, na Marie Curie cam turn an icon insyd de scientific world wey she receive tributes from across de globe, even insyd de realm of pop culture.Borzendowski, Janice (2009). Sterling Biographies: Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-4027-5318-3. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015. She sanso receive chaw honorary degrees from universities across de world."Marie Curie – The Radium Institute (1919–1934) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

Na Marie Curie be de first woman make she win a Nobel Prize, de first person make she win two Nobel Prizes, de only woman make she win insyd two fields, den de only person make win insyd multiple sciences."Nobel Prize Facts". Nobelprize.org. 22 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012. Awards den honours wey she receive include:

 Nobel Prize insyd Physics (1903, plus ein husby Pierre Curie den Henri Becquerel)
 Davy Medal (1903, plus Pierre)
 Matteucci Medal (1904, plus Pierre)
 Actonian Prize (1907)
 Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
 Legion of Honour (1909, she reject am)
 Nobel Prize insyd Chemistry (1911)
 Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1919)
 Franklin Medal of de American Philosophical Society (1921)
 Order of the White Eagle (2018, posthumously)

Entities wey na dem name after Marie Curie dey include:

 De curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity
 Na dem name de element plus atomic number 96 curium (symbol Cm).
 Dem sanso name three radioactive minerals after de Curies: curite, sklodowskite, den cuprosklodowskite.
 De Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship program of de European Union for young scientists wey dey wish make dem work insyd a foreign country
 Insyd 2007, na dem rename a metro station insyd Paris after both of de Curies.
 De Polish research nuclear reactor Maria
 De 7000 Curie asteroid
 Marie Curie charity, insyd de United Kingdom
 De IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, an international award dem establish by de Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers insyd 2008.
 De Marie Curie Medal, an annual science award dem establish insyd 1996 wey ebe conferred by de Polish Chemical Society
 De Marie Curie–Sklodowska Medal and Prize, an annual award wey be conferred by de London-based Institute of Physics for distinguished contributions to physics education
 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University insyd Lublin, Poland
 Pierre and Marie Curie University insyd Paris
 Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology insyd Poland
 École élémentaire Marie-Curie insyd London, Ontario, Canada; Curie Metropolitan High School insyd Chicago, United States; Marie Curie High School insyd Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich, Switzerland
 Rue Madame Curie insyd Beirut, Lebanon.

Dem devote chaw biographies to am, wey dey include:

 Ève Curie (Marie Curie's daughter), Madame Curie, 1938.
 Françoise Giroud, Marie Curie: A Life, 1987.
 Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A Life, 1996.
 Barbara Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie, 2005.
 Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout, 2011, dem adapt into de 2019 British film.


Na Marie Curie be de subject of a number of films:

 1943: Madame Curie, a U.S. Oscar-nominated film by Mervyn LeRoy starring Greer Garson.
 1997: Les Palmes de M. Schutz, a French film adapted from a play of de same title, wey be directed by Claude Pinoteau. Marie Curie be played by Isabelle Huppert.
 2014: Marie Curie, une femme sur le front, a French-Belgian film, directed by Alain Brunard den starring Dominique Reymond.
 2016: Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge, a European co-production by Marie Noëlle starring Karolina Gruszka.
 2016: Super Science Friends, an American Internet animated series created by Brett Jubinville plus Hedy Gregor as Marie Curie.
 2019: Radioactive, a British film by Marjane Satrapi starring Rosamund Pike.

 References 

 Read further 

 Nonfiction 











 Sobel, Dava (2024), The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science,  , 


 Fiction 

  A 2004 novel by Per Olov Enquist featuring Maria Skłodowska-Curie, neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, and his Salpêtrière patient "Blanche" (Marie Wittman). The English translation was published in 2006.

 External links 

 Works by Marie Curie at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 
 Works by Marie Curie at Open Library 
 Works by Marie Curie at Project Gutenberg
 Works by or about Marie Curie at the Internet Archive
 Newspaper clippings about Marie Curie in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
 Marie Curie on Nobelprize.org


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