My List of Inspirational People: Marie Curie

Professor Dr Marie Curie, PhD

Name: Marie Sklodowska Curie

Date of Birth: 7 November 1867

Date of Death: 4 July 1934

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland

Citizenship: France

University: University of Paris

Occupation: Professor and researcher of Physics and Chemistry, University of Paris

Famous for: Being the first person ever and the only one to date to be awarded two Nobel Prize in two different field of Science, Nobel Prize in Physic 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 , and the first women to be awarded a Nobel Prize for her contribution in the field of radiation and for the discovery of radium and polonium.