Marie Curie

Marie Curie (1867–1934) was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. Her
groundbreaking research on radioactivity led to the discovery of two elements, polonium and
radium, earning her two Nobel Prizes—in physics (1903) and in chemistry (1911)—and
becoming the first person and only woman to achieve such a feat. Her work revolutionised
understanding of atomic structure and radiation, laying the foundation for modern nuclear
physics and medical radiation therapy. This photograph of Curie was taken around the 1920s.