June 25, 2024 – Marie Curie Famous People by Omar Shamsi

Tuesday

June 25, 2024

Title:  Marie Curie

Series:  Famous People

Artwork by:  Omar Shamsi

Note:

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.