How tall is Marie Curie?

Marie Curie's listed height was 160 cm (5'3"). She was taller than about 77% of women in France.

Where 160 cm sits among women in France

Taller than about 77% of women in France born in 1867 (average 155.3 cm).

About Marie Curie

Marie Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire, where she studied at the clandestine Flying University. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to Paris to study, and in 1895 she married Pierre Curie.

Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband for their joint researches on radioactivity, a term she coined. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different scientific fields. In 1906 she became the first woman to be a professor at the University of Paris.

Curie stood a listed 160 cm (5'3"). She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920 and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932, and during the First World War she developed mobile radiography units for field hospitals. She died on 4 July 1934.

Frequently asked

How tall is Marie Curie in feet and inches? Marie Curie was 5'3" tall, which is 160 cm, 63 inches or 1.60 m.

Is Marie Curie tall for women in France? At 160 cm she was taller than about 77% of women in France born in 1867, whose average height is 155.3 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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