Marie Curie the first female to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win that award twice
Marie Curie
She born in Poland on 7 November 1867, this brilliant woman was the first to:
- Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Earn a master’s degree in physics from Sorbonne University
- Use the term “radioactivy”
- Be a Laboratory Chief and professor at the Sorbonne University
- Be a member of the French Academy of Medicine
- Win Nobel Prize twice
- Be the first Nobel winner mom with a Nobel winner daughter
- Be entombed on her own merits in the Pantheon
Marie died in 1934. During her last year, Marie worked on her book “Radioactivity“, which was published on 1935.
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MrSIZEMIK (February 2018) Marie Curie Documentary. Retrieved on 16 may 2019 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeVaEPFFNYc
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