Marie Curie

my project on feminism on the "first" woman scientist

Summary

Marie Curie who was originally Marie Sklodowska is a Polish woman was bornon November 7, 1867. She was one of the first woman to obtain a degree in physics, the first woman to graduate a university in France, receive a Nobel Prize, first scientist to receive two Nobel Prizes, and obtain a chair position at the Sorbonne. Even though she had a daughter, in 1897 with her husband Pierre Curie, it did not slow her down. She continued to research uranium rays and their radioactivity. In 1903, along with her husband, they received the first Nobel Prize in physics. Shortly after her husband passed away, she took the place of her husband’s teaching job at Sorbonne and became the first woman professor and later on obtained a chair position at Sorbonne. In 1911, Marie received her second Nobel Peace Prize because of her discovery on Radium and Polonium, thus leading her to becoming the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes.