Marie Curie: Recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Discoverer of the Chemical Elements Polonium and Radium

Déjà vu all over again: When the Polish‐born scientist Marie Skłodowska‐Curie traveled from Paris to Stockholm in December 1911 to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was the second time that she had been recognized with the sciences' top honor; she had already received the Nobel Prize in...

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Published in:Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011-05, Vol.50 (21), p.4752-4758
Main Authors: Friedrich, Christoph, Remane, Horst
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
chemical elements
Curie
Curie, Marie
Famous Persons
Female
history of chemistry
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Marie
Nobel Prize
Polonium - history
Polonium - isolation & purification
radioactivity
Radium - history
Radium - isolation & purification
Research Personnel
Uranium - chemistry
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Summary:Déjà vu all over again: When the Polish‐born scientist Marie Skłodowska‐Curie traveled from Paris to Stockholm in December 1911 to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was the second time that she had been recognized with the sciences' top honor; she had already received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Madame Curie's contributions included her pioneering investigations of radioactivity and the discovery of the radioactive elements radium and polonium.
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201008063