Internet giant, Google has released a new doodle to mark the 144th birth anniversary of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie. The doodle is a piece of artwork showing her at work in her laboratory on the search engine's home page.

Curie is popularly known for her work in he field of radioactivity. The viewers of the Google homepage can see a doodle of Curie sitting among laboratory apparatus. When the users click one the doodle, the search engine shows result page on Marie Curie.

Curie was the first women to be honored with two Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Her research showed that radiation occurs because of atoms themselves and not because of interaction between molecules.

She had published a paper announcing the existence of a new element, polonium along with her husband in 1898. The two also discovered the existence of another element, radium. She has received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies across the world.

The Polish-French physicist received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with her husband and another one in 1911 for her work in the field of Chemistry.