Editing Marie Curie (section)

== Commemoration and cultural depictions ==
[[File:CERN, Marie Curie, Ginebra, Suiza, 2015 19.JPG|thumb|upright=0.9| Bust of "Maria Skłodowska-Curie", [[Microcosm (CERN)|CERN Museum]], [[Switzerland]], 2015]]

As one of the most famous scientists in history, Marie Curie has become an icon in the scientific world and has received tributes from across the globe, even in the realm of [[pop culture]].<ref name="Borzendowski2009a" /> She also received many honorary degrees from universities across the world.<ref name="The Radium Institute" />

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in [[Nobel Prize#Multiple laureates|multiple sciences]].<ref name="Nobel" /> Awards and honours that she received include:
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel)<ref name="Estreicher1938b" />
* [[Davy Medal]] (1903, with Pierre)<ref name="Zwoliński" /><ref name="Vincent Sheean1999" />
* [[Matteucci Medal]] (1904, with Pierre)<ref name="Vincent Sheean1999" />
* [[Actonian Prize]] (1907)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Scientific Notes and News |journal=Science |volume=25 |issue=647 |year=1907 |pages=839–840 |issn=0036-8075 |doi=10.1126/science.25.647.839 |bibcode=1907Sci....25..839. |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1974994 |access-date=24 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426190212/https://zenodo.org/record/1974994/files/article.pdf |archive-date=26 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] (1909)<ref name="FranklinInstitute" />
* [[Legion of Honour]] (1909, rejected)<ref>{{cite book |last=Opfell |first=Olga S. |author-link= |date=1978 |title=The Lady Laureates. Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize |url= |location=London |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=161 |isbn=}}</ref>
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (1911)<ref name="Wierzewski2008" />
* [[Civil Order of Alfonso XII]] (1919)<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.revistalaocaloca.com/2011/12/marie-curie-cientifica-universal/ |title=Marie Curie, científica universal |trans-title=Marie Curie, Universal Scientist |first=Miguel |last=Carreras Ezquerra |magazine=La Oca Loca |language=es |date=21 December 2011 |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society)|Franklin Medal]] of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1921)<ref name="Proc. Am. Philos. Soc.1921" />
* [[Order of the White Eagle (Poland)|Order of the White Eagle]] (2018, posthumously)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/ordery-orla-bialego-przyznane-posmiertnie-25-wybitnym-polakom,7125 |language=pl |title=Ordery Orła Białego przyznane pośmiertnie 25 wybitnym Polakom |website=prezydent.pl |date=11 November 2018 |access-date=16 November 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016043915/https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/ordery-orla-bialego-przyznane-posmiertnie-25-wybitnym-polakom,7125 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Entities that have been named after Marie Curie include:
* The [[Curie (unit)|curie]] (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in honour of her and Pierre Curie (although the commission which agreed on the name never clearly stated whether the standard was named after Pierre, Marie, or both).<ref name="Frame1996" />
* The element with atomic number 96 was named [[curium]] (symbol Cm).<ref name="RoyalSociety" />
* Three radioactive minerals are also named after the Curies: [[curite]], [[sklodowskite]], and [[cuprosklodowskite]].<ref name="Borzendowski2009b" />
* The [[Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions]] fellowship program of the [[European Union]] for young scientists wishing to work in a foreign country<ref>{{cite web |title=Marie Curie Actions |url=http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/documentation/publications/eu-marie-curie-actions-fellowships-innovative-science-becomes-success-publication_en.pdf |publisher=European Commission |access-date=10 September 2012 |page=5 |year=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604030857/http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/documentation/publications/eu-marie-curie-actions-fellowships-innovative-science-becomes-success-publication_en.pdf |archive-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>
* In 2007, [[Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris Métro)|a metro station in Paris]] was renamed after both of the Curies.<ref name="Borzendowski2009b" />
* The Polish research [[Maria reactor|nuclear reactor Maria]]<ref name="IAEPoland" />
* The [[7000 Curie]] asteroid<ref name="Borzendowski2009b" />
* [[Marie Curie (charity)|Marie Curie charity]], in the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=207994&subId=0 |title=Marie Curie |website=charitycommission.gov.uk |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>
* The [[IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award]], an international award presented for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering, was established by the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/award/ieee-marie-sklodowska-curie-award/ |title=IEEE Marie Skłodowska–Curie Award |website=[[IEEE]] |access-date=14 November 2023}}</ref>
* The [[Marie Curie Medal]], an annual [[science awards|science award]] established in 1996 and conferred by the [[Polish Chemical Society]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/11180774/100_Years_Polish_Chemical_Society/#:~:text=During%20the%20anniversary%20celebrations%2C%20Professor%20Roald%20Hoffmann%20was,Adam%20Mickiewicz%20University%20%28AMU%29%2C%20Poznan%2C%20Poland.%20Figure%206. |title=100 Years Polish Chemical Society |website=chemistryviews.org |author=Vera Koester |date=7 September 2019 |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref>
* The Marie Curie–Sklodowska Medal and Prize, an annual award conferred by the London-based [[Institute of Physics]] for distinguished contributions to physics education<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iop.org/about/awards/silver-subject-medals |title=Silver Subject Medals and Prizes |website=iop.org |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[Maria Curie-Skłodowska University]] in [[Lublin]], Poland<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.umcs.pl/en/biography-of-maria-curie-sklodowska,24559.htm |title=Biography of Maria Curie–Skłodowska |website=umcs.pl |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] in Paris
* [[Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology]] in Poland
* [[École élémentaire Marie-Curie]] in London, Ontario, Canada; [[Curie Metropolitan High School]] in Chicago, United States; [[Marie Curie High School]] in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; [[Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich]], Switzerland; see [[Lycée Marie Curie (disambiguation)|Lycée Marie Curie]] for a list of other schools named after her
* [[Rue Madame Curie]] in Beirut, Lebanon.

Numerous biographies are devoted to her, including:
* [[Ève Curie]] (Marie Curie's daughter), ''Madame Curie'', 1938.
* [[Françoise Giroud]], ''Marie Curie: A Life'', 1987.
* [[Susan Quinn]], ''Marie Curie: A Life'', 1996.
* [[Barbara Goldsmith]], ''Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie'', 2005.<ref name="Cosmopolitanreview.com2011a" />
* [[Lauren Redniss]], ''[[Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout]]'', 2011,<ref name="Cosmopolitan2011b" /> adapted into the 2019 British film.
* {{cite book |last=Sobel |first=Dava |author-link=Dava Sobel |title=The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science |publisher=Fourth Estate |date=24 October 2024 |isbn=978-0-00-853691-6 |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-elements-of-marie-curie/}}<ref name="Spinney2024"/>

Marie Curie has been the subject of a number of films:
* 1943: ''[[Madame Curie (film)|Madame Curie]]'', a U.S. Oscar-nominated film by [[Mervyn LeRoy]] starring [[Greer Garson]].<ref name="leg" />
* 1997: ''[[Les Palmes de M. Schutz]]'', a French film adapted from a play of the same title, and directed by [[Claude Pinoteau]]. Marie Curie is played by [[Isabelle Huppert]].<ref name="Brennan2012" />
* 2014: ''[[Marie Curie, une femme sur le front]]'', a French-Belgian film, directed by {{Interlanguage link|Alain Brunard|lt=Alain Brunard|fr}} and starring [[Dominique Reymond]].
* 2016: ''[[Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge]]'', a European co-production by [[Marie Noëlle]] starring [[Karolina Gruszka]].
* 2016: ''[[Super Science Friends]]'', an American Internet animated series created by Brett Jubinville with Hedy Gregor as Marie Curie.
* 2019: ''[[Radioactive (film)|Radioactive]]'', a British film by [[Marjane Satrapi]] starring [[Rosamund Pike]].

Curie is the subject of the 2013 play ''False Assumptions'' by [[Lawrence Aronovitch]], in which the ghosts of three other women scientists observe events in her life.<ref>[http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/03/26/mixing-science-with-theatre Mixing Science With Theatre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512223248/http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/03/26/mixing-science-with-theatre |date=12 May 2014 }}, ''Ottawa Sun'', March 2013</ref> Curie has also been portrayed by Susan Marie Frontczak in her play, ''Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie'', a one-woman show which by 2014 had been performed in 30 U.S. states and nine countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.popsci.com/article/science/famous-image-marie-curie-isnt-marie-curie |title=This Famous Image of Marie Curie Isn't Marie Curie |publisher=Popular Science www.popsci.com |date=7 March 2014 |access-date=15 November 2014 |author=Main, Douglas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110231415/http://www.popsci.com/article/science/famous-image-marie-curie-isnt-marie-curie |archive-date=10 November 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Lauren Gunderson's 2019 play ''The Half-Life of Marie Curie'' portrays Curie during the summer after her 1911 Nobel Prize victory, when she was grappling with depression and facing public scorn over the revelation of her affair with Paul Langevin.

The life of the scientist was also the subject of a 2018 Korean musical, titled ''[[Marie Curie (musical)|Marie Curie]]''. The show was since translated in English (as ''Marie Curie a New Musical'') and has been performed several times across Asia and Europe, receiving its official [[Off West End]] premiere in [[London]]'s [[Charing Cross Theatre]] in summer 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Akbar |first=Arifa |date=10 June 2024 |title=Marie Curie review – musical dash through the scientist's life leaves your head spinning |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/10/marie-curie-musical-review-charing-cross-theatre-london |access-date=27 September 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Curie has appeared on more than 600 postage stamps in many countries across the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/what-can-postage-stamps-tell-us-about-the-history-of-nuclear-physics/ |title=What can postage stamps tell us about the history of nuclear physics? |website=physicsworld.com |date=27 October 2023 |access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allaboutstamps.co.uk/stamp-guides/thematics/marie-curie-stamps/ |title=Marie Curie on stamps |website=allaboutstamps.co.uk |date=26 November 2018 |access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref>

Between 1989 and 1996, she was depicted on a 20,000-[[zloty]] banknote designed by [[Andrzej Heidrich]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://banknotedb.com/20-000-zlotych-february-1-1989 |title=20,000 Złotych February 1, 1989 |website=banknotedb.com |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref> In 2011, a commemorative 20-zloty banknote depicting Curie was issued by the [[National Bank of Poland]] on the 100th anniversary of the scientist receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/nbp-maria-sklodowska-curie-ponownie-na-banknocie |language=pl |title=NBP: Maria Skłodowska–Curie ponownie na banknocie |website=dzieje.pl |date=24 November 2011 |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref>

In 1994, the [[Bank of France]] issued a 500-[[French franc|franc]] banknote depicting Marie and Pierre Curie.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note203759.html |title=500 Francs – Pierre & Marie Curie type 1993 |website=en.numista.com |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref> As of the middle of 2024, Curie is depicted on French [[50 euro cent coin]]s to commemorate her importance in French history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Veil, Baker and Curie: acclaimed women to appear on new French coins |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240310-veil-baker-and-curie-acclaimed-women-to-appear-on-new-french-coins |website=RFI |access-date=22 March 2024 |language=en |date=10 March 2024}}</ref>

Marie Curie was immortalized in at least one color [[Autochrome Lumière]] photograph during her lifetime. It was saved in Musée Curie in Paris.<ref>[https://www.hatiandskoll.com/2017/09/12/pretty-in-pink/ History of Photography by David E]. Wolf 12.09.2017</ref>