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Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy.
1 Marie Curie: The Discovery of Radium. 2  Introduction: 3  Marie Curie was a remarkable scientist who devoted her life to investigation of radioactivity, and was the first among many scientists to recognize that radioactivity is the result of changes in the atoms of an element. Marie Curie wondered what was radiation and how might understanding it benefit the human race.