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| 1867 | Birth |  |
| 7th Nov Warsaw Birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie |
| 1898 | Discovery of Radium | |
| 26th Dec Paris Discovers that pitchblende must contain traces of an unknown radioactive component far more radioactive than uranium, Marie Sklodowska-Curie announces the existence of this new substance |
| 1902 | Discovery of Polonium | |
| The Curies first name polonium after Marie's native country Poland, and radium from its intense radioactivity |
| 1902 | Discovery of Radium | |
| The Curies first name polonium after Marie's native country Poland, and radium from its intense radioactivity |
| 1903 | Discovery of Radium | |
| 25th June Announces the discovery of radium |
| 25th June Intentionally does not patent the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered |
| 1903 | Education | |
| Paris Receives her DSc from the ESPCI, Paris , becoming the first woman in France to complete her doctorate |
| 1903 | Nobel Prize | |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they (Curies) have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" |
| The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize |
| 1911 | Health | |
| A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, Marie Curie is hospitalized with depression and kidney trouble |
| 1911 | Nobel Prize | |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.." |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only two people who has been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields, the other being Linus Pauling |
| 1934 | Death | |
| Sallanches Death of Marie Curie, leukemia, from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to massive exposure to radiation |
| Warsaw Death of Marie Sklodowska Curie |
| 1934 | Health | |
| Sallanches Death of Marie Curie, leukemia, from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to massive exposure to radiation |
