- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMaria Salomea Sklodowska
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was married to Pierre Curie. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France.
- SpousePierre Curie(July 25, 1895 - April 19, 1906) (his death, 2 children)
- During her studies, she lived in near-poverty on a diet of tea and toast.
- She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win it in two fields (Physics and Chemistry).
- She founded the Curie Institute which has headquarters in both Paris and Warsaw.
- She studied at the Sorbonne Institute in Paris and later became the first woman to be made a professor there.
- Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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