Marie Curie's birthplace & museum

Marie's Curie's birthplace on ulica Freta 16 in Warsaw's "New Town" – now home to the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

• Address: ul Freta 16 (Nowe Miasto)

Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, in the Russian partition of Poland, on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława and Władysław Skłodowski.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

• Nobel Prize in Physics (1903)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)

Maria Skłodowska at 15

Perhaps the most famous of all women scientists, Maria Sklodowska-Curie is notable for her many firsts:

• She was the first to use the term radioactivity for this phenomenon.
• She was the first woman in Europe to receive her doctorate of science.
• In 1903, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics. The award, jointly awarded to Curie, her husband Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, was for the discovery of radioactivity.
• She was also the first female lecturer, professor and head of Laboratory at the Sorbonne University in Paris (1906).
• In 1911, she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize (this time in chemistry) for her discovery and isolation of pure radium and radium components. She was the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes.
• She was the first mother-Nobel Prize Laureate of daughter-Nobel Prize Laureate. Her oldest daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935).
• She is the first woman which has been laid to rest under the famous dome of the Pantheon in Paris for her own merits.

Marie Curie in her lab

The Marie Curie Museum is an 18th-century building where Marie Curie,Maria Skłodowska,was born.

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It would be a beautiful thing, a thing I dare not hope, if we could spend our life near each other, hypnotized by our dreams: your patriotic dream, our humanitarian dream, and our scientific dream. [Pierre Curie to Maria Skłodowska]