1867 - 1934
Marie 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 15,697,196 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.
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Among physicists, Marie Curie ranks 3 out of 721. Before her are Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. After her are Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, Wilhelm Röntgen, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Niels Bohr, James Prescott Joule, André-Marie Ampère, and Ernest Rutherford.
1643 - 1726
HPI: 96.84
Rank: 1
1879 - 1955
HPI: 94.79
Rank: 2
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 3
1942 - 2018
HPI: 89.32
Rank: 4
1791 - 1867
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 5
1845 - 1923
HPI: 87.99
Rank: 6
1858 - 1947
HPI: 86.63
Rank: 7
1745 - 1827
HPI: 86.22
Rank: 8
1885 - 1962
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 9
1818 - 1889
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 10
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 11
1871 - 1937
HPI: 84.88
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1867, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Luigi Pirandello, Emil Nolde, Arturo Toscanini, John Galsworthy, Mary of Teck, Percy Fawcett, Madam C. J. Walker, and Pierre Bonnard. Among people deceased in 1934, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Paul von Hindenburg, Lev Vygotsky, Ernst Röhm, Edward Elgar, Fritz Haber, Albert I of Belgium, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Kurt von Schleicher, Sergey Kirov, Raymond Poincaré, and Nestor Makhno.
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 1
1867 - 1959
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 2
1867 - 1951
HPI: 80.18
Rank: 3
1867 - 1935
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 4
1867 - 1936
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 5
1867 - 1956
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 6
1867 - 1957
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 7
1867 - 1933
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 8
1867 - 1953
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 9
1867 - 1925
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 10
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 11
1867 - 1947
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 12
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 1
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 2
1896 - 1934
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 3
1887 - 1934
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 4
1857 - 1934
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 5
1868 - 1934
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 6
1875 - 1934
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 7
1888 - 1934
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 8
1882 - 1934
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 9
1886 - 1934
HPI: 76.96
Rank: 10
1860 - 1934
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 11
1888 - 1934
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Marie Curie ranks 3 out of 1,231. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473) and Frédéric Chopin (1810). After her are Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Catherine the Great (1762), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Heinz Guderian (1888), and Lech Wałęsa (1943).
1473 - 1543
HPI: 93.51
Rank: 1
1810 - 1849
HPI: 91.60
Rank: 2
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 3
1920 - 2005
HPI: 89.13
Rank: 4
1788 - 1860
HPI: 88.67
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 6
1762 - 1796
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 7
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 8
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 9
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.95
Rank: 10
1888 - 1954
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 12
Among physicists born in Poland, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Max Born (1882), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Otto Stern (1888), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Leopold Infeld (1898), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803).
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 1
1686 - 1736
HPI: 80.81
Rank: 2
1882 - 1970
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 3
1822 - 1888
HPI: 77.33
Rank: 4
1888 - 1969
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 5
1852 - 1931
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 6
1898 - 1988
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 7
1908 - 2005
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 8
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 9
1898 - 1968
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 10
1860 - 1930
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1803 - 1879
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 12