Marie Curie c. 1920 Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska (1867-11-07)7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire[1] Died 4 July 1934(1934-07-04) (aged 66) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France Cause of death Aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation Residence Poland, France Citizenship Poland (by birth) France (by marriage) Alma mater University of Paris ESPCI[2] Known for Radioactivity Polonium Radium Spouse(s) Pierre Curie (1859–1906; m. 1895) Children Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956) Ève Curie (1904–2007) Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) Albert Medal (1910) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) Willard Gibbs Award (1921) Scientific career Fields Physics, chemistry Institutions University of Paris Institut du Radium École Normale Supérieure French Academy of Medicine International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation Thesis Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances) Doctoral advisor Gabriel Lippmann Doctoral students André-Louis Debierne Óscar Moreno Marguerite Perey Émile Henriot Signature Notes She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.