Marie Curie works in her Paris laboratory in 1921

Marie Curie, alongside her husband Pierre Curie, isolated radium and polonium, earning them a joint Nobel Prize in 1903. After Pierre's death, Marie continued her research independently, refining radium metal, and was awarded a second Nobel Prize in 1911.

What happened to Pierre Curie three years after they won the Nobel Prize?

• He became a professor

• He died tragically

• He discovered a new element

• He moved to America

What significant achievement did Marie Curie accomplish in 1911?

• First woman to win a Nobel Prize

• Second Nobel Prize for Chemistry

• Discovery of Radium

• Isolation of Polonium