Madame Marie Curie By halaante Nov 7, 1867 Marie Curie was Born Jun 12, 1883 Won gold medal for gymnastics Jan 1, 1891 Left Poland for France Jan 1, 1897 Had daughter Irene Jan 1, 1898 Discovered Radium Jan 1, 1898 Discovered Polonium Apr 14, 1898 Curies optimistically weighed out a 100-gram sample of pitchblende and ground it with a pestle and morta Oct 8, 1898 Obtained traces of radium Jan 1, 1900 École Normale Supérieure Jan 1, 1901 Marie isolated pure radium metal Jan 1, 1902 Visited Poland when Father died Jan 1, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics Jan 1, 1903 Davy Medal Jan 1, 1904 Matteucci medal Jan 1, 1909 Elliott Cresson Medal Jan 1, 1911 Nobel Prize Chemistry Jan 1, 1912 Avoided Public Life Jan 1, 1921 Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society Jan 1, 1934 Visited Poland for the last time Jul 4, 1934 Marie Curie Died