Marie Curie
1867–1934 · physicist and chemist · France
Arts and ideas22 years old in 1889
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, 1890s
- Who governs
- The Republic lives through scandal after scandal: Panama in 1892, then the Dreyfus affair.
- Everyday life
- Electric light, the bicycle craze and, from 1898, the digging of the first metro line change city life.
- Arts and ideas
- Montmartre cabarets, Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, and in 1895 the Lumière brothers' first film screenings.
- Meanwhile
- Britain is at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, and Japan has just defeated China in 1895.
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
