In 1911, Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire.
Died: 4 July 1934 (aged 66) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France.
Education: University of Paris ESPCI.
Known as: Pioneering research on radioactivity Discovering polonium and radium.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Davy Medal (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904), Actonian Prize (1907), Elliott Cresson Medal (1909), Albert Medal (1910), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), Willard Gibbs Award (1921), Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1931).
Fields: Physics, Chemistry.
