But did you know that Marie and Pierre Curie's daughter went on to win a Nobel Prize herself? Born on September 12, 1897, in Paris, France, Irene Joliot-Curie emerged as a prominent figure in the ...

Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system, which discouraged free thought in favor of rote ...

THE news has just been published of the award to Madame Curie of the Nobel prize for chemistry. This great woman scientist thus enjoys the extraordinary distinction of having twice been honored ...

By the time she developed the X-ray vans, Marie Curie was already the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, then the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She was the first woman in France to earn a Ph.D.

Perhaps Marie Curie is best known for winning both the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). With these awards, she became: The first woman to win a Nobel Prize. The ...

Ninety years after her death, she remains history’s most famous woman scientist. Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize – in 1903, she and her husband, Pierre, received the award for ...

One woman, Marie Curie, helped change the lives ... They were given the most important prize in the world for science: the Nobel Prize. Marie was the first woman ever to receive this!