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| Sitting soooo still! Waiting to start her memorized speech |
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| She cracked a smile when she recognized my shoes! |
Marie Skłodowska Curie November 1867 – 4
July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska was a Polish and
naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman
to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part
of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman
to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first
woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her
husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry. Curie died in 1934,
aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, due to aplastic
anemia brought on by exposure to radiation while carrying test tubes of radium
in her pockets during research, and in the course of her service in World War I
mobile X-ray units that she had set up.
