Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie
- Timeline
- 1867-1934
- Field
- Chemistry, physics, radioactivity
- Institution
- University of Paris (La Sorbonne), France
Curie Institute, France - Known for
- The discovery of polunium and radium
- Distinctions
- Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel with Pierre Curie, 1903
- First woman to win a Nobel Prize
First woman to be professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), 1906
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element, 1911
First women to have won two Nobel Prizes