Google Celebrates Marie Curie's Birthday With Special Homepage
Noble Prize winner Marie Curie celebrated her anniversary of winning the prestigious award 144 years ago on Nov. 7, and Google paid tribute to the great thinker with an homage on its main page.
Above the Google search bar, the company placed an image called the "Google Doodle." Upon clicking on the era themed pastel painting, the searcher is taken to a search page of all things Madame Curie.
Curie joins fellow scientists Thomas Edison, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi as prominent people to be immortalized by Google on the homepage.
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Curie became the first of two people to win the Noble Prize in multiple fields. Besides this, she was the first to win in multiple fields of science that includes physics and chemistry.
In 2009, she was voted The Most Inspirational Woman in Science, and France and Poland have named 2011 The Year of Marie Curie.
Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867, but moved to France with the help of her sister when she was deemed too poor to marry or continue her studies.
It was there she met her husband Pierre Curie, and the two of them studied the science of magnetism.
In 1903, they shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, and in 1911, she won again for her work in chemistry after devoting her entire life to her work following the death of her husband in 1906.
Shortly before Curie's death, she became heavily involved with studies in radioactivity and introduced the primitive X-ray machine.
In 1934, she died of aplastic anemia in 1934 due to her exposure radioactive materials she worked with during in her career.
Curie was also known for founding the Curie Institutes in Poland and France as well as CO-founding the Warsaw radium Institute.
