Marie Curie

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize

Marie Curie portrait — Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, and was the first woman to win a Nobel and the only person to win in two different sciences.

Here's a time line of Marie Curie

1867 – Born in Warsaw, Poland
1898 – Discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie
1903 – Won Nobel Prize in Physics
1911 – Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1934 – Died from aplastic anemia due to radiation exposure

Learn more about her life and work on Wikipedia