- During her studies, she lived in near-poverty on a diet of tea and toast.
- She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win it in two fields (Physics and Chemistry).
- She founded the Curie Institute which has headquarters in both Paris and Warsaw.
- She studied at the Sorbonne Institute in Paris and later became the first woman to be made a professor there.
- Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- In 1898 she named the first chemical element that she discovered, "polonium", for her native country, Poland.
- She worked in close contact with radioactive materials without proper shielding. As a result, all of her papers are too radioactive to be handled, and are kept in lead-lined boxes.
- In 1995, in honor of her achievements, both her and her husband's remains were moved to the Pantheon in France, which is where the great heroes of France are interred.
- In 1911, a French newspaper, Le Journal of Paris, published an inflammatory article which alleged that Marie Curie was carrying on an affair with Paul Langevin, a married scientist. Crowds gathered outside of her window to jeer and catcall. While waiting for the affair to die down, she learned that she had just won her second Nobel Prize.
- She wrote a book during the last year of her life while she was dying of radiation poisoning. She also served as a member of the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights from 1930 until her death.
- She turned down several awards, and insisted that monetary gifts be given to the institutes she was associated with rather than her.
- She enjoyed cooking and was rather proud of some of her recipes.
- Albert Einstein named her as one of the scientists whom he admired most.
- She lost her husband in 1906 to a traffic accident.
- Mother-in-law of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
- Mother of Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie.
- Pictured on a Polish 6z commemorative postage stamp, issued 7 November 2017.
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