Title

Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, preparing to go cycling. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, preparing to go cycling. Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel. In 1898, they discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. Marie did most of the work of producing these elements, and to this day her notebooks are still too radioactive to use. She went on to become the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in France, and continued her work after Pierre's death in 1906. In 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Becquerel. Marie won a second Nobel Prize, for chemistry, in 1911.
Oxford Science Archive

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Photo12/Heritage Images

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HRM19B64_246

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29,9Mb (1,1Mb) / 9,6in x 12,1in / 2884 x 3628 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation leisure female women woman people male job man men couple relaxation country marriage French France relaxing science guy occupation Poland polish dress cycling cyclist scientist chemistry bicycle bicycles bike location century profession radioactivity lady concept physics wife husband road Transport physicist 19th century famous people 1900s 20th century nineteenth century Nobel Prize Oxford Science Archive Nobel Prize winner TGN Marie Curie Pierre Curie photograph portrait Unknown Henri Pierre Marie Curie Marie Sklodowska Curie Marie Sklodowska Manya Sklodowska Henri Becquerel Antoine Henri Becquerel Becquerel Henri Becquerel photograph portrait