Tuesday
June 25, 2024
Title: Marie Curie
Series: Famous People
Artwork by: Omar Shamsi
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie
In 1903, Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her research of radiation phenomena. She was also the first woman in France to attain a PhD in Physics, and the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1911, she won a second Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium.