Marie Curie

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake in 1929

Einstein Curie 1929 discussion

Marie Curie didn't sugarcoat it: life is hard for everyone. Her answer? Perseverance and, above all, believing in yourself. She insisted we're each gifted for something, and that thing has to be pursued no matter the… 显示更多

Marie Curie on perseverance and self-confidence

When WWI started, Marie Curie decided her Nobel Prize should go toward the war effort. She tried to donate the actual gold from both medals, but the French National Bank turned her down. So she channeled most of the… 显示更多

Marie Curie Nobel Prize war bonds

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie broke ground twice: first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first person to claim two, and still the only human to do it in separate scientific fields, Physics and Chemistry #MarieCurie

17 Of the 29 scientists at the 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics were or became Nobel laureates. The photo is often called the most intelligent ever taken. The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and… 显示更多

1927 Solvay Conference photo

Marie Curie described finding science as a new world she was finally allowed to explore freely

Marie Curie science quote

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be… 显示更多

Marie Curie quote on perseverance

In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics recognized pioneering work on radiation, conducted by Marie Skłodowska Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. However, Marie Skłodowska Curie's name was left out of the initial… 显示更多

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is still the sole individual to have earned Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines: Physics and Chemistry.

Marie Curie Nobel Prize achievements

Marie Curie's lab notebook from 1899-1902, used to document her experiments, is still intensely radioactive and will remain so for about 1,500 years.

Marie Curie radioactive notebook

In 1903, Marie Curie presented her doctoral thesis, Research on Radioactive Substances, at the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris. She became the first woman in France to earn a doctorate. #MarieCurie

Marie Curie 1903 doctorate

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie were photographed deep in conversation by a lake in 1929.

Einstein and Curie 1929

PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE ON THEIR HONEYMOON BICYCLE TRIP IN 1895 i am losing my MIND this is so iconic 🚲

Pierre and Marie Curie honeymoon bicycle 1895

Marie Curie behind the wheel of a mobile radiological unit in 1914.

Marie Curie mobile radiological unit 1914

About a century of exposure to radium and its radioactive isotopes left Marie Curie's body, her notebooks, and her writings dangerously radioactive, a condition expected to persist for another 1,500 years. She used to… 显示更多

Marie Curie radioactive notebooks