Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. In 1895, she married the French physicist Pierre Curie, and she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a term she coined. In 1906, Pierre Curie died in a Paris street accident. Marie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932; both remain major medical research centres. During World War I, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.
While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames, never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element she discovered ''polonium'', after her native country. Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at the sanatorium in Passy (), France, of aplastic anemia likely from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. In addition to her Nobel Prizes, she received numerous other honours and tributes; in 1995 she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Paris , and Poland declared 2011 the Year of Marie Curie during the International Year of Chemistry. She is the subject of numerous biographical works. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Hou, Tong, Charlier, Bernard, Namur, Olivier, Schütte, Philip, Schwarz-Schampera, Ulrich, Zhang, Zhaochong, Holtz, FrancoisContributors: “...Marie Curie Individual Fellowship...”
Published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2017)
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6Contributors: “...Li, Z. X.; Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris...”
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7Contributors: “...Conil, S.; Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris...”
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8by Zangrando, Roberta, Zanella, Veronica, Karroca, Ornela, Barbaro, Elena, Kehrwald, Natalie M., Battistel, Dario, Morabito, Elisa, Gambaro, Andrea, Barbante, CarloContributors: “...Marie Curie...”
Published in Science of The Total Environment (2020)
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9by Pérez, Lara F., Nielsen, Tove, Knutz, Paul C., Kuijpers, Antoon, Damm, VolkmarContributors: “...Marie Curie...”
Published in Global and Planetary Change (2018)
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10Contributors: “...Marie Curie...”
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11by Lucia, Magali, Strøm, Hallvard, Bustamante, Paco, Herzke, Dorte, Gabrielsen, Geir W.Contributors: “...Marie Curie Fellowship...”
Published in Polar Biology (2016)
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12by Papetti, Chiara, Windisch, Heidrun S., La Mesa, Mario, Lucassen, Magnus, Marshall, Craig, Lamare, Miles D.Contributors: “...European Marie Curie...”
Published in Marine Genomics (2016)
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13Neodymium and hafnium boundary contributions to seawater along the West Antarctic continental marginby Rickli, Jörg, Gutjahr, Marcus, Vance, Derek, Fischer-Gödde, Mario, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, GerhardContributors: “...Marie-Curie Fellowships...”
Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2014)
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14by Lameris, Thomas K., van der Jeugd, Henk P., Eichhorn, Götz, Dokter, Adriaan M., Bouten, Willem, Boom, Michiel P., Litvin, Konstantin E., Ens, Bruno J., Nolet, Bart A.Contributors: “...Marie Curie...”
Published in Current Biology (2018)
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15Contributors: “...Marie Curie Actions...”
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16by Steinthorsdottir, Margret, Elliott-Kingston, Caroline, Bacon, Karen L.Contributors: “...EU Marie Curie...”
Published in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (2017)
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17by Weidenfeld, Adi, Björk, Peter, Williams, Allan M.Contributors: “...Marie Curie Fellowship...”
Published in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2018)
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19by Millon, EtienneContributors: “...Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique...”
Published 2014
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20by Roehner, Bertrand M.Contributors: “...Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre...”
Published 2009
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