Marie Curie

Marie Curie (1867–1934) was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist renowned for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields: Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). Her work led to the discovery of the elements polonium and radium and fundamentally changed the understanding of atomic physics and radioactivity.