Paris in the Belle Époque studying the fluorescence of uranium salts, discovered radioactivity in 1896, and in 1903 was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery. Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934) jointly carried on Becquerel's work, discovering radium and polonium (1898). They jointly received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903. Marie Curie became the first female professor at the University of Paris and won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911. She was the first woman to be buried in the Panthéon. The neon light was used for the first time in Paris on 3 December 1910 in the Grand
Marie Curie High School Vietnam, with around 5000 students in regular attendance. In 2007, it became a public high school. Marie Curie High School Marie Curie High School (French: "Lycée Marie Curie", Vietnamese: "Trường Trung học Phổ thông Marie Curie") is a public high school in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established in 1918 and named after the Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie by the French colonial government, it remains the sole high school in Saigon that still bears its original name. Founded in 1918 as an all-girls school, it began accepting boys in 1970. In 1997, it was turned into a