Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ ˈkjʊri, kjʊˈriː /; French: (kyʁi); Polish: (kjiˈri); 7 November 1867 -- 4 July 1934; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; (ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska)) 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 and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
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Marie Skłodowska Curie