Maria Salomea Sklodowska, popularly known as Marie Sklodowska Curie, was born on the 7th of November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Russia, and passed away on the 4th of July 1934.
Do you know that while the Nobel Prize Committee was hesitant to give Marie Curie an award because she was a woman, she became the first woman and only person to receive a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences?
A French physicist and chemist, Marie Curie is responsible for pioneering work discovering that atoms were divisible, developing the theory of radioactivity and the discovery of two elements, radium and polonium. Her work eventually led to her death because of high exposure to radiation.
Famous Quote: “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”