Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist who done research on radioactivity. Marie Curie had received scientific training from her father and was involved with students revolutionary organization. In 1891, Marie had went to Paris to continue her studies in Sorbonne where she earned her licenciateships in Physics and Mathematical sciences. She was married to the Professor in the school of Physics, Pierre Curie. Following the death of her husband in 1906, she took his place as the professor of General Physics where it was the first time a woman had held this position. She had also served as the Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, which was founded in 1914. In 1929, President Hoover had rewarded her $50,000, which was donated by the American friends of Science, this was to purchase radium to use in a laboratory. Marie was a member of Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 to 1922. She was also a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Her work has been admired by many and has been in many papers and scientific journals. She has written many books as well including "Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives" (1904) and "L’Isotopie et les Éléments Isotopes and the classic Traité’ de Radioactivité "(1910). Marie had also received many awards for science, medicine, law, and memberships of learned societies. Marie was awarded the Noble Prize for Physics in 1903 and had also received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in Radioactivity.