Marie Curie
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1 (of 10) Portrait of Marie Curie (1934).
Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives Photographer unknown No known copyright restrictions
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2 (of 10) The Curie Pavillion at the Radium Institute in 1925.
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3 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughter Irène in the laboratory at the Radium Institute in Paris, France, 1921.
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4 (of 10) Marie Curie in her chemistry laboratory at the Radium Institute in France, April 1921.
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5 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughter Irène at the Hoogstade Hospital in Belgium, 1915. Radiographic equipment is installed.
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6 (of 10) Marie Curie and four of her students. (Photo taken between 1910 and 1915.)
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7 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughters Irène and Eve sitting on a bench in the garden (1905).
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8 (of 10) On 25 June 1903 Marie Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, thus becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. Image shows the thesis cover: Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances).
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9 (of 10) Pierre and Marie Curie in the "hangar" at l'Ecole de physique et chimie industrielles in Paris, France, where they made their discovery. (Photo taken 1898.)
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10 (of 10) Wedding photo of Pierre and Marie Curie, 1895.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.
