Marie Curie
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Timeline of Marie Curie's Life:
• 1867 - Born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
• 1877 - Attended Boarding School
• 1883 - Graduated from a girls gymnasium
• 1889 - Worked as a governess
• 1890 - Tutored and Studied at the Flying University
• 1891 - Left Poland for France and enrolled in the University of Paris
• 1893 - Awarded a degree in Physics
• 1894 - Earned a second degree in Mathematics or Chemistry
• 1895 - Married Pierre Curie
• 1897 - Her daughter Irène was born
• 1898 - Marie discovered the element Polonium with her husband Pierre Curie and named it after Poland
• 1898 - Marie and Pierre discovered radium by extracting 1 mg of radium from ten tonnes of the uranium ore pitchblende
• 1903 - Awarded: Nobel Prize in Physics, Davy Medal and wrote her thesis on Research on Radioactive Substances
• 1904 - Matteucci Medal
• 1907 - Actonian Prize
• 1909 - Elliott Cresson Medal
• 1910 - Albert Medal
• 1911 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1921 - Willard Gibbs Award
• 1931 - Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
• 1934 - Died, aged 66 at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy (Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anaemia