Marie Curie

1911

Nobel Prize in Chemistry won for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of the element.

…the Nobel Prize for physics was shared by Henri Becquerel with Pierre and Marie Curie, not Marie Curie alone. Don’t forget them.

Marie Curie's granddaughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, on who shared Marie Curie's first Nobel Prize.

Interview of Hélène Langevin-Joliot by Azam Niroomand-Rad on 2003 April 13

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Marie Curie

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Comprehensive Archival Catalog

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AIP at American Center for Physics - DC

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