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In 1906 Pierre Curie died in a Paris street accident.

In 1895 she married the French physicist Pierre Curie, and she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"-a term she coined. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work.

She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She worked as a journalist, and wrote her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors.Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( / ˈ k j ʊər i/ KURE-ee, French pronunciation: ​, Polish pronunciation: born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She was the younger daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. Ève Denise Curie Labouisse ( French pronunciation: ​ Decem– October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Henry Richardson Labouisse (1954–1987 widowed)