Who supervised Marie Curie’s doctorate at the University of Paris?

Gabriel Lippmann supervised Marie Curie’s doctorate at the University of Paris.

Lippmann was a prominent physicist and professor at the Sorbonne, where Curie pursued advanced studies in physics. He had taught and encouraged her scientific work, and he also presented her early paper on thorium’s radiation to the French Academy of Sciences in April 1898 because she was not yet a member. His role connected her emerging research with Paris’s scientific establishment.

Curie’s doctoral research examined radioactive substances, building on Henri Becquerel’s discovery of uranium radiation and her own measurements of uranium minerals. She received her Doctor of Science degree in June 1903. That same year, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Becquerel. Paul Langevin was another important physicist in her circle, but he did not supervise this doctorate; Ernest Rutherford and Henri Poincaré were likewise not her doctoral supervisors.