Marie Curie

Marie Curie Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) — and remains the only person to have done so. Her discoveries of the elements polonium and radium and her pioneering research on radioactivity fundamentally advanced nuclear physics and laid the groundwork for cancer radiotherapy. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first female professor at the University of Paris.