Laureate

Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

1867–1934 · Poland · Female

Awards

  1. 1903

    Nobel Prize — Physics

    Physics

    in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel

  2. 1911

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

    Chemistry

    in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element