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Marie Curie

1867 - 1934

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Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( KURE-ee; French: [maʁi kyʁi]), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Curie is the 3rd most popular physicist, the most popular biography from Poland (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Physicist.

Marie Curie is most famous for her pioneering work in the field of radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marie Curie ranks 3 out of 851. Before her are Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. After her are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Mary of Teck, Edgar de Wahl, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Luigi Pirandello, Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, and Arturo Toscanini. Among people deceased in 1934, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Paul von Hindenburg, Lev Vygotsky, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Edward Elgar, Fritz Haber, Ernst Röhm, Raymond Poincaré, Albert I of Belgium, Nestor Makhno, Kurt von Schleicher, and Sergey Kirov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marie Curie ranks 1 out of 1,694. After her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Pope John Paul II (1920), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Marie Curie ranks 1. After her are Albert A. Michelson (1852), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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