France 10 Euro Silver (.900) Proof Coin 2019
Marie Curie
Women who have marked the History of France
Marie Curie
Women who have marked the History of France
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| Description: Obverse The obverse represents the portrait of Marie Curie surrounded by her double surname and dates of birth and passing away. In the background, the texture is a reproduction of the scientific manuscripts of her works. It includes formulas related to the research that led her to be presented to the Nobel Prize. Reverse The reverse represents in the center, the couple formed by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre. They are surrounded by the evocation of the Nobel Prizes she has received; one with her husband in 1903, the second, on her own, in 1911. The background is made up of a representation of the molecular structure of polonium, a discovery that won him his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. About An exceptional scientist, she is the first woman to have received the Nobel Prize, and to date the only woman to have received two. She remains to this day the only person to have been awarded in two distinct scientific fields: physics and chemistry . Marie Curie and Pierre Curie - her husband - received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their research on radiation. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on polonium and radium. Seires The coins in this series highlight the women who have marked the history of France. Through their portraits and the outstanding scenes of their lives, the engravers of the Monnaie de Paris have transcribed the personalities of our famous women. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||