2-704-660 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Madame Curie', c1900, (1914). Portrait of Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934). She and her husband Pierre were two of the first people to work on radioactivity, discovering radium and polonium. Marie Curie was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, and won the Nobel Prize twice (1903 and 1911). From "Bibby's Annual 1914", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914]