Marie Sklodowska Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4,1934) was a Polish/French physicist and chemist famed for her Nobel Prize winning research. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Pierre Curie and physicist Henri Becquerel for their groundbreaking work in radioactivity. Eight years later she became the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes when she won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of two elements: polonium and radium.
