Buttes-Chaumont in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

Marie Curie

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 1, 2024

1. Marie Curie Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Marie Curie
1867-1934
Première femme
Prix Nobel
a vécu ici
en 1891

(Marie Curie (1867-1934), first female Nobel Prize winner, lived here in 1891.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Science & Medicine • Women. A significant historical year for this entry is 1891.

Location. 48° 53.095′ N, 2° 22.739′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Buttes-Chaumont. It is on Avenue Jean Jaurès, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 92 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Paris, Île-de-France 75019, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony

and also the Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Square Marcel-Mouloudji (1986) (about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); École Maternelle Armand Carrel Deported Jewish Student Memorial

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(approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Annexe de l'état-major régional FFI / French Forces of the Interior regional headquarters (approx. 0.4 kilometers away); Square Serge Reggiani (1929) (approx. 0.4 kilometers away); Armand Dufour (approx. half a kilometer away); Helno (approx. half a kilometer away); Cimetière des Juifs portugais / Portuguese Jewish Cemetery (approx. half a kilometer away); Isidore David Grinberg (approx. half a kilometer away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker.

Also see . . . Marie Curie (Wikipedia). Excerpts:

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. 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. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 1, 2024

2. Marie Curie Marker - wide view
The marker is visible here to the right of the boarded up entrance.
Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.

Life in Paris: In late 1891, she left Poland for France. In Paris, Maria (or Marie, as she would be known in France) briefly found shelter with her sister and brother-in-law before renting a garret closer to the university, in the Latin Quarter, and proceeding with her studies of physics, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Paris, where she enrolled in late 1891…

(Submitted on November 18, 2024.)

Marie Curie Marker - wider view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 1, 2024

3. Marie Curie Marker - wider view

Credits. This page was last revised on November 18, 2024. It was originally submitted on November 18, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 105 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on November 18, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.