Curie, Marie

1. A French chemist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, born in Poland. With her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the element radium.

Marie Curie was the first major female scientist of modern times.

Marie Curie was the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry).

Example Sentences

Around 1900, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie’s husband, deliberately burned his arm with radium as part of their radiation experiments.

From Washington Times