Marie Curie

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie

1867 - 1934 aged 66

Pioneering researcher on radioactivity with husband Pierre

Children Irène and Ève

​Nobel Prize in Physics (1903)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)

Discovered the elements polonium and radium

First, and only, woman to win a Nobel Prize twice and in two different scientific fields

First woman to become a professor at Paris University