Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie ( KEWR-ee; French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [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. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, 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. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Curie has received more than 17,577,346 page views. Her biography is available in 168 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 163 in 2019). Marie Curie is the 3rd most popular physicist, the 3rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Polish 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.