Marie Curie
1867–1934 · physicist and chemist · France
Arts and ideas8 years old in 1875
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1867
- 18703 years old
- 18747 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 18758 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188619 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189831 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 189831 years oldPolonium and radiumco-discoverer
- 193467 years oldDies
