Marie Curie her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris. She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements included the development of the
Curie Curie The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in "Nature" at the time, it was named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Curie as well. It was originally defined as "the quantity or mass of radium emanation in equilibrium with one gram of radium (element)" but is currently defined as: 1 Ci = decays per second after more accurate measurements of the activity of Ra (which has a specific activity of .) In 1975 the General Conference