Monday 7 November 2011
Marie Skłodowska Curie, was born in Poland, on 7th November 1867 (died 4 July 1934).
She was physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon paris.
In 1903 she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie (and with Henri Becquerel), but she was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Achievements - a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
Curiosity - She named the first chemical element that she discovered "polonium" (1898) for her native country.
Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw.
Curie died in 1934 of aplastic anemia, brought on by her lifelong exposure to radiation.
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