Marie Curie

Polish-French physicist

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Wikipedia

Born: November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland

Died: July 4, 1934, Passy, France

Discovered: Radium, Polonium

Spouse: Pierre Curie (m. 1895–1906)

Children: Irène Joliot-Curie, Ève Curie

Parents: Władysław Skłodowski, Bronisława Skłodowska

Buried: April 20, 1995, Panthéon, Paris, France