Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (1867 - 1936), more known as Marie Curie was a born Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to ever win the Nobel Price, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. The second of which she received recognized her discovery and research of two elements: radium and polonium.

- Polonium was a nod to her home country, Poland.

Marie Curie's life was pure struggle. She had to overcome countless obstacles to be able to dedicate herself to science, since in her country, Poland, women were not allowed to go to university. She had to seek for alternative higher education for women, thus her french residence and association.

Marie's notebooks which she used when performing her most important research on radiation in the early 20th century, she had no idea the effects it would have on her health. It wasn't unusual for her to walk around her lab with bottles of polonium and radium in her pockets. Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, likely caused by prolonged exposure to radiation, in 1934. Even her notebooks are still radioactive a century later. Today they're stored in lead-lined boxes, and will likely remain radioactive for another 1500 years.

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