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How old was Marie Curie when they won their first Nobel Prize, in Physics?
Marie Curie was 36 years old when they won their first Nobel Prize, in Physics, on 10 December 1903.
Marie Curie died 4 July 1934 at age 66 — 30 years after this milestone.
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
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