Marie Curie, ca. 1920 |Born||Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November
1867 Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire
|Died||4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
|Citizenship||Poland (by birth) France (by marriage)
|Institutions||University of Paris| |Alma mater||University of
Paris |Doctoral advisor||Henri Becquerel| |Doctoral
students||André-Louis Debierne Marguerite Catherine Perey |Known
for||Radioactivity, polonium, radium| |Notable awards||Nobel
Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) |Spouse||Pierre Curie
(1859–1906)| Marie Skłodowska-Curie, often referred to as Marie
Curie or Madame Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a
Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is
famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the
first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two
fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was
also the first female professor at the University of Paris