Marie Curie was a pioneering Polish-born physicist and chemist renowned for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person ever awarded Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields—Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the phenomenon of radioactivity, a term she coined. She later discovered two new elements, polonium and radium, and was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating pure radium. Her research fundamentally changed scientific understanding of atomic structure and radioactivity, and she championed the use of radiation in medicine, particularly for cancer treatments.
Curie was also the first female professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, and during World War I, she developed mobile X-ray units to assist battlefield medical care. Her dedication to science, despite personal and professional challenges, left a lasting legacy in both scientific research and medical practice.
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