1867–1934 Polish-born French physicist and radiochemist who was a pioneer in the study of radioactivity.
Keywords: radium; polonium; radioactivity; radiology
Curie, Marie
Katherine D Watson, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002760
| Further Reading | |
| book Curie M (1910) Traité de Radioactivité, 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. | |
| book Curie M (1921) La Radiologie et la Guerre. Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan. | |
| book Curie M (1935) Radioactivité, 2 vols. Paris: Hermann & Cie. | |
| book Curie E (1938) Madame Curie, Sheean V (transl.). London: Heinemann. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Giroud F (1986) Marie Curie: A Life, Davis L (transl.). London and New York: Holmes & Meier. | |
| book James LK (ed.) (1993) Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901–1992. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation. | |
| book Joliot-Curie I (ed.) (1954) Oeuvres de Marie Sklodowska Curie. Warsaw: Académie Polonaise des Sciences. | |
| book McGrayne SB (1993) "Marie Sklodowska Curie". Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, pp. 11–36. New York: Birch Lane Press. | |
| book Quinn S (1995) Marie Curie: A Life. London: Heinemann. | |
