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CURIE, Marie (née Maria Sklodowska), (1867-1934). Photograph signed (M. Curie"), by an unidentified photographer, n.d. [ca.1920?}.
10½ x 7 in., approximately, including mount. Signed in ink in blank area below the photograph. Matted, framed and glazed. Unexamined out of frame.
A striking, high contrast studio portrait of the physicist, gazing frontally into the camera. The discoverer of polonium and later radium, she and her husband, Pierre Curie, were awarded a half share in the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics; the other half going to Henri Becquerel, all for work in radiation. In 1911, after the death of Pierre, she won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her own work on radioactivity. Marie Curie was not only the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, she is one of only two scientists ever to win Nobel medals in more than one field. SIGNED PHOTOS OF CURIE ARE VERY UNCOMMON.
10½ x 7 in., approximately, including mount. Signed in ink in blank area below the photograph. Matted, framed and glazed. Unexamined out of frame.
A striking, high contrast studio portrait of the physicist, gazing frontally into the camera. The discoverer of polonium and later radium, she and her husband, Pierre Curie, were awarded a half share in the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics; the other half going to Henri Becquerel, all for work in radiation. In 1911, after the death of Pierre, she won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her own work on radioactivity. Marie Curie was not only the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, she is one of only two scientists ever to win Nobel medals in more than one field. SIGNED PHOTOS OF CURIE ARE VERY UNCOMMON.