Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Marie Curie NPG x138968

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pacific & Atlantic Photos Ltd

The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the prize twice. Curie and her husband Pierre Curie's research led to the discovery of two new radioactive elements, radium and polonium, the latter named after her homeland Poland. Their research was crucial to the development of X-rays and the treatment of cancer. Pierre insisted that his wife jointly receive their Nobel prize in 1903, after initially being omitted and for many years she was not recognised by the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.