Marie Curie
The physicist and chemist who discovered polonium, won two Nobel Prizes, and remains the only person to have won in two scientific fields.
Marie Curie, born Maria Salomea Sklodowska in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native country. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win one twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, shared the first of those prizes with her. She succeeded him as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, and after his death in 1906 she took his place as Professor of General Physics, the first woman to hold that position.
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