Question

Madame Marie Curie won the nobel Prize in which field?
A. Physics and chemistry
B. Chemistry only
C. Physics only
D. Biology only

Answer 1

Hint: Madame Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who front ran experimental research into radioactivity, progressing pioneering techniques for isolating radioactive elements and putting them to viable use.

Complete step by step answer:
-Madame Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on 7th November, 1867, as the daughter of a school teacher. She had done an extensive education in regional schools and got some scientific knowledge from her father. In 1891, she went to Paris to carry on with her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained a Bachelor degree in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics as the faculty in the field of Sciences, the first time a woman had held this position. She was also designated the Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.
-Her early researches along with her husband, were regularly performed under difficult conditions, laboratory arrangements were very poor and both had to tackle much teaching to earn a daily bread. The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant research and analysis which led to the isolation of polonium, named after Marie's birth country, and radium.

Hence,option (A) is correct.

Note:Madame Curie received a joint award for Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in radioactivity in 1903. In 1911, she received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of elements radium and polonium.Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive sublimates in sufficient quantities to enable its enactment and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular.