Marie Curie

Pioneering physicist and chemist and first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Marie Skłodowska Curie worked in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Poland and France, combining physics, chemistry, laboratory leadership, wartime radiology, and institution building. Her research on radioactivity included quantitative measurement, the identification of polonium and radium with collaborators, isolation work, and development of a new field of study.