[40], If Curie's work helped overturn established ideas in physics and chemistry, it has had an equally profound effect in the societal sphere. She was the first woman to win a 'Nobel Prize' and the first female professor to serve at the 'University of Paris.'. Marie Curie was appointed as the director of Red Cross Radiology Service. But despite being a top student in her secondary school, Curie could not attend the male-only University of Warsaw. In 1891, Curie finally made her way to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne. Curie, however, declared that he was ready to move with her to Poland, even if it meant being reduced to teaching French. Her discoveries of radium and polonium were important because the elements were radioactive, which meant that when their atoms broke down, they gave off invisible rays that could pass through solid matter and conduct electricity. She had succeeded in deducing how uranium rays increased conductivity in the air. Born: 7 November 1867, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) Died: 4 July 1934, Sallanches, France. [126] In 2011, on the centenary of Marie Curie's second Nobel Prize, an allegorical mural was painted on the faade of her Warsaw birthplace. Marie was born in Poland in 1867. Their remains were sealed in a lead lining because of the radioactivity. [14][30], She used an innovative technique to investigate samples. She was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until her death and since 1922 she had been a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. In 1906, she became the first woman physics professor at the Sorbonne. [25] Albert Einstein reportedly remarked that she was probably the only person who could not be corrupted by fame. She is also the only woman to win the 'Nobel Prize' twice, and the only person to win the prestigious prize in two . This was the first ever military radiology center which she set up herself in France. Curie discovered radioactivity, and, together with her husband Pierre, the radioactive elements polonium and radium while working with the mineral pitchblende. From this date Marie focuses her research on the chemistry of radioactive substances and the medical applications of these substances. [42][43] In 1902 she visited Poland on the occasion of her father's death. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. Physicist Marie Curie at her laboratory at the University of Paris in France in 1911, Photograph by Time Life Pictures / Mansell / The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images. They name it, Move to Paris, Pierre Curie, and first Nobel Prize, https://www.britannica.com/summary/Marie-Curie-Timeline. [48] On 13 May 1906 the physics department of the University of Paris decided to retain the chair that had been created for her late husband and offer it to Marie. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.