Marie and Pierre Curie by Amber G

Pierre Curie was born

May 15, 1859

Marie Curie was born

Nov 7, 1867

Marie Curie Graduated School with a Gold Medal

Jun 12, 1883

Marie Curie went to France to study at the Sorbonne

Oct 8, 1891

Marie Curie was awarded a degree in physics

Dec 31, 1893

Marie met the French chemist Pierre Curie

Jan 8, 1894

Marie Curie earned a second degree

Dec 31, 1894

Pierre Curie received his doctorate and was promoted to professor in the School

Mar 1, 1895

Marie and Pierre were married in a civil union

Jul 26, 1895

Curies announced the existence of an unknown radioactive substance found in pitchblende that was more radioactive than uranium

Dec 26, 1898

Marie had had a part-time teaching post at the École Normale Supérieur de Sèvres for girls

Oct 8, 1900

Curies isolated radium chloride

Apr 20, 1902

Marie Curie presented the findings of this work (isolated one decigram of almost pure radium chloride and had determined radium's atomic weight as 225) in her doctoral thesis

Jun 25, 1903

Marie Curie recieved Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct 8, 1903

Pierre Curie died

Apr 19, 1906

Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie recieved Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Oct 8, 1911

Marie Curie founded the ‘Radium Institute’ in Warsaw, Poland

Oct 8, 1932

Marie Curie died

Jul 4, 1934