Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist

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Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist
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Quotes
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Letter to her brother (1894)
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
— Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in ''Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 137
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas; Variant: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.[1]
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Portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

Title: Mme. Curie Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Title: Mme. Marie Curie Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Marie Curie in her Paris laboratory

Mme. Curie and 4 students. Standing, from left to right: Madeleine and Eugénie Cotton. Sitting: Anna Cartan, Marie Curie and Marthe Baillaud (niece of Jules Tanneryand).

Portraits of Marie Curie [1867 - 1934] and Pierre Curie [1859 - 1906] Iconographic Collections Keywords: Marie Curie; Pierre Curie; Eugene Pirou; Physicist; Henri Manuel; Chemist

Photograph showing Marie and Pierre Curie (centre) with a man, using equipment in their laboratory, Paris Iconographic Collections Keywords: Marie Curie; Pierre Curie; Radium; Radiation; Physicist; Victorian; Scientists; Laboratory; Laboratories; Chemist

Depicted person: CURIE (Pierre et Marie) Wikidata has entry Marie Curie (Q7186) with data related to CURIE (Pierre et Marie).
Marie Curie

Pierre and Marie Curie at work in a laboratory. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Chemist; Physicist; Marie Curie; Pierre Curie
John Scott Award (1921)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)