Achievements

• Maria Sklodowska [early name of Madame Curie] crowned her brilliant high school career by graduating first in her class of 1883. She was awarded a "gold medal" for her outstanding achievements.
• Madame Curie, surpassing many boundaries set for women of her time, became the first woman who graduated with a degree in Physics at the Sorbonne University, Paris, in 1893 and received a second degree in Mathematics from the same university in 1894.
• She was the first woman professor at the University of Sorbonne.
• The Sorbonne University completed the Radium Institute in the honor of Madame Curie in July 1914.
• Madame Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in 1903, and the only woman Nobel laureate in science for many years, until her daughter Irene Joliot Curie won the prize for Physics for producing "artificial radioactivity".
• She received a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and isolation of polonium and radium, in 1911.
• Marie Curie was elected to the French Academy of Medicine for her contributions to radiological medicine, becoming the first member in the 224-year history of the ‘Institute de France’, in 1922.
• Madame Curie was the first person and only woman in history to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.
• During her lifetime, Madame Curie received over 125 degrees, medals and decorations from universities and organizations around the world.
• The Polish Government opened the Radium Institute in Warsaw in the honor of Madame Curie, in 1925.