The Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship was established in honour of the late Polish physicist and chemist – the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in recognition of her scientific studies.
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska, conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, became the first woman professor at the University of Paris in 1906, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize alongside her husband, Pierre Curie, in 1903, and winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911.
