Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( KURE-ee, French pronunciation: ​[maʁi kyʁi], Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarja skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) 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 the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize, making them the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Curie has received more than 20,817,088 page views. Her biography is available in 173 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 168 in 2019). Marie Curie is the 3rd most popular physicist, the 2nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Physicist.

Marie Curie is most famous for her pioneering work in the field of radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.