Marie Curies later life

Pierre Curie was the love of Curie’s life and her partner in science. They met in 1894 when Marie Curie worked in Pierre Curie’s lab, they were married the following year.

Her husband Pierre Curie whom she married in 1895. Pierre was a physicist who shared the discovery and Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity in 1903. He was a major influence on her scientific career, and they were partners both in their home and in their workplace (workplace couple goals for real). Pierre and Marie Curie had two daughters Irene Joliot and Eve Curie. And a few years after they married, Pierre Curie abandoned his own research to join his wife’s study of radioactivity. The Curie’s affair of the heart and mind ended tragically not long after Eve was born. In 1906, Pierre Curie was run over by a horse and carriage and killed.

For her research in “radiation phenomena,” Curie became, in 1903, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. French academics originally proposed only her husband and Henri Becquerel, but Pierre Curie insisted that his wife share the honor

In 1911, for the isolation of radium, she was awarded another Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. She was and still is the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in two scientific categories. By that time, Curie was world-famous, and the director of the Curie laboratory at the newly established Radium Institute (today the Curie Institute).

she died in 1934 due to aplastic anemia