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A legendary life
Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie
1867 – 1934
Physicist and chemist whose pioneering research transformed the study of radioactivity.
Her story
A life that changed history
Marie Curie coined the term radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and remains the only person honored in two different scientific fields.
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Pierre Curie, 1923
“In science, we should be interested in things, not persons.”
Marie Mattingly Meloney, preface to Pierre Curie, 1923