Julien Boucher

🇫🇷 Monday 5 November 1906: Marie Curie became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris. On that same day, Marie Curie gave her first lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris. Marie Curie was also the first woman in France to obtain a doctorate in physics. 🇵🇱 Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on Thursday 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, in the Congress Kingdom of Poland. Better known as Marie Curie, a Polish chemist, doctor and physicist who carried out pioneering research in the field of radioactivity. Marie Curie also acquired French nationality. In 1903, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her research into radiation phenomena. In 1911, she was awarded a second Nobel Prize, this time the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the discovery of polonium and radium. 🕯️ Wednesday 4 July 1934: Marie Curie (aged 66) died in Passy, France. 🪦 Friday 6 July 1934 : Marie Curie was buried at Sceaux Cemetery, near Paris, where her parents-in-law and her husband, Pierre Curie, were already laid to rest. 🪦 Marie Curie was buried twice. Upon Marie Curie’s death, her body was so radioactive that she had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. 🗓️ No one knew this until 1995, when her coffin was exhumed. 🪦 In 1995, the remains of Pierre and Marie Curie were reburied at the Panthéon, France’s national mausoleum, in Paris. 👩‍🔬 #5Nov #Nov5 #Curie #MarieCurie #Paris #Sorbonne