Marie Curiehd Review

: In 1995, she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

For more in-depth biographical details, you can visit the Official Nobel Prize profile or the Curie Institute's history page . MARIE CURIE - NobelPrize.org

: During World War I, she developed a fleet of mobile X-ray units known as "Little Curies" ( petites Curies ). She personally trained 150 women to operate them, allowing battlefield surgeons to locate shrapnel and save lives. Marie CurieHD

Marie Curie (1867–1934) was a pioneering Polish-French scientist who fundamentally changed our understanding of the physical world through her research on —a term she coined. She remains one of history's most decorated scientists, distinguished as the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win them in two different scientific fields: Physics and Chemistry. Key Scientific Achievements

: Awarded to her alone for the discovery and isolation of radium and polonium. : In 1995, she became the first woman

: She founded research centers in Paris (1920) and Warsaw (1932) that remain global leaders in medical research and cancer treatment today. Nobel Prizes and Honors

Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anemia, a condition almost certainly caused by her lifelong exposure to high levels of radiation. Her laboratory notebooks remain so radioactive today that they must be stored in lead-lined boxes. She personally trained 150 women to operate them,

: Working with her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered two new radioactive elements in 1898: polonium (named after her native Poland) and radium .