MSU Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies

* Marie Sklodowska Curie

1867-1934

Portrait: 26
Location - Floor: First - Zone: Room 136 - Wall: South - Sequence: 4
Source: Kedzie Collection
Sponsor: J. Throck Watson

For the discovery of polonium and radium in 1898, Madame Curie and her husband Pierre shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel. She was awarded a second Nobel Prize (in Chemistry) in 1911 for her work on radioactivity (a term she coined) and for the isolation of radium metal. She was the first woman appointed to a professorship at the Sorbonne, and the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes.

Last Updated: May 16, 2003 URL: http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Portraits/
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