Marie Curie’s Death – Cause and Date

The physicist Marie Curie died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Polish physicist and chemist who discovered two radioactive elements: radium and polonium. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won the award for physics. In 1911, she won the award again for chemistry.

Her real name is Marie Sklodowska Curie. She married Pierre Curie, a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize with her, on July 26, 1895. The couple had two children, Irène Joliot-Curie, who followed in her parents footsteps and became a scientist, and Ève Curie, who went on to become a writer.

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.