English noun: Marya Sklodowska | |||
| 1. | Marya Sklodowska (person) French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) | ||
| Synonyms | Curie, Madame Curie, Marie Curie | ||
| Instance hypernym | chemist | ||