Marie, however, was drawn towards the idea and decided to make a systematic investigation. While most of the scientific community was fascinated by German engineer Wilhelm Roentgen’s recent discovery of X-rays, Becquerel’s discovery hadn’t aroused much attention. What brought them together, kept them together, as the husband-wife duo teamed up professionally to deliver astounding results.īecquerel paved the way for the Curies’ groundbreaking research by discovering radioactivity (a term later coined by Marie) in 1896. Marie and Pierre met in the spring of 1894 and what started as an intellectual affinity soon blossomed into something more, as they married each other in 1895. The Curies won this award “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”.
While Becquerel was given half the prize, the other half was shared by the Curies. Marie shared her 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, the French physicist Pierre Curie, and their colleague, the French engineer Henri Becquerel. After becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903, she won a second in 1911. Marie, in fact, is the only woman so far to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice. A name synonymous with advances in sciences, she was particularly involved in the branch of radioactivity. Marie Curie is a name that needs no introduction.
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