80 years of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

6th International Poster Biennial Lublin | 2023

80 years of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University UMCS

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish physicist, chemist and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Curie did many things. She and her husband created a theory of radioactivity. They found different ways to separate radioactive isotopes and discovered two new elements: radium and polonium. The term polonium was named after Poland, her home country. She used her own studies in radioactivity to develop a new treatment for cancer. These treatments used the radioactive isotopes.