About this Book

The Nobel Foundation presents a biographical sketch of French chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934). The biography highlights her education, her career as a chemist, and research with her husband Pierre. The Curies shared a Nobel prize in physics in 1903 for their work on spontaneous radiation. Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911 for the discovery and the isolation of pure radium.