Marie Curie studied in Poland and gained recognition.
Marie Curie . She studied at Warsaw 's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw . She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel . She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity ( a term that she coined ) , techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes , and the discovery of two elements , polonium and radium .