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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.
Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the chemical element Polonium and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. (AFP/Getty Images) This seventh of November commemorates the birth of legendary scientist Marie Curie (born Maria Salomea SkÅodowska) 148 years ago. With her husband, Pierre, the Polish-born Frenchwoman pioneered the study of radioactivity until her death in 1934.