View asset onlyMarie and Pierre Curie, physicists, 1904. Artist: UnknownMarie and Pierre Curie, physicists, 1904. Photograph with their daughter Irene. Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by H Becquerel. In 1898, they discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. Marie did most of the work of producing these elements, and her notebooks are still too radioactive to use. She went on to become the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in France, and continued her work after Pierre's death. In 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Becquerel.IdentifierAKG4893376SourceHeritage ImagesCredit lineHeritage-Images / Oxford Science Archive / akg-imagesTime Period20TH CENTURYTopicCHEMIST (MALE) (CHEMISTRY)CHEMISTRYCHILDDRESSFINE LADY ; GENTLEWOMANGARDEN ; YARDGIRLMANMILITARY OCCUPATIONMONOCHROMENOBEL PRIZEPHOTOGRAPHER (MALE) ; PHOTOGRAPHERPHYSICIST (MALE) ; PHYSICISTPHYSICSPORTRAITPROFESSIONRADIOACTIVITYSCIENCES ; SCIENCESCIENTISTWOMANGeographyFRANCEPOLANDPersonHENRI BECQUERELIRENEIRENE JOLIOT-CURIEMARIEMARIE CURIEPIERRE CURIESize1391px × 1756px (6 MB) 11.7 cm × 14.8 cm @ 300 dpiAdd to lightbox: 'My First Lightbox'Add to cartDownload
