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Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

Marie Curie - 1911

 

For her discovery of radium and polonium

 

Country of birth: Poland

Date of birth: 7/11/1867

 

Country of birth: France

Date of birth: 12/09/1897

 

Irene Joliot-Curie - 1935

 

For their synthesis of new radioactive elements

 

Country of birth: United Kingdom

Date of birth: 12/05/1910

 

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - 1964

 

For her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

 

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