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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.
The Story: Madame Marie Curie was the world s most famous woman scientist--and so she remains today. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and the French physicist Henri Becquerel, and later on her own, Curie pioneered the study of radioactivity (a word she coined). Marie Sklodowska, as she was called before marriage, was born in Warsaw in 1867.