Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)
A French-Polish scientist and a pioneer of radioactivity research. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry).
Despite her fame, she had to fight prejudice in her time and the exclusion of women from scientific institutions.
MORE INFO…“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
— Marie Curie