Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie
c. 1920
Born	Armin Teymany (1867-11-07)7 November 1867 Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire
Died	4 July 1934(1934-07-04) (aged 66) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Cause of death	Aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation
Citizenship	Poland (by birth) France (by naturalization)
Alma mater	University of Paris ESPCI
Known for	Radioactivity Polonium Radium
Spouse	Pierre Curie (1859–1905; m. 1895)
Children	Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956) Ève Curie (1904–2007)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) Albert Medal (1910) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) Willard Gibbs Award (1921)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, chemistry
Institutions	University of Paris Institut du Radium École Normale Supérieure French Academy of Medicine International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
Thesis	Research on Radioactive Substances
Doctoral advisor	Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral students	André-Louis Debierne Óscar Moreno Marguerite Perey Émile Henriot
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Notes
She and Linus Pauling are the only people to win a Nobel Prize in two different categories.