About Marie Curie

Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irène Joliot-Curie.

While an actively loyal French citizen, she never lost her sense of Polish identity. Madame Curie named the first new chemical element that she discovered (1898) "polonium" for her native country, and in 1932 she founded a Radium Institute in her home town, Warsaw, headed by her physician-sister.

Curie House Competition Positions

2006-2007

4th

2005-2006

6th

2004-2005

5th

2003-2004

1st

House Captain

Eleni Achilleos

Deputy House Captain

Robert Durrant

Form Prefects

Year 7

Rachel Crade
Charlotte Keith

Year 8

Sophie Pike
Susie Durrant

Year 9

Cassandra Holland
Holly Cunningham

Year 10

Joanna Davis
Olivia Webster

Year 11

Alexandra Whiteman
Olivia Verghese