The winner of Nobel Prize of Physics in the year 1903 along with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, Marie Curie (7 November, 1867–4 July, 1934) was brought up in Warsaw, Poland. Her forte was not one but multiple fields. Marie Curie coined the term ‘radioactivity’ and discovered Polonium and Radium, both of which are Isotopes and used in present day treatment of Neoplasm by medical practitioners.
Although she shared the Physics Nobel Prize yet she is still the only woman to receive the two greatest awards in the world. An active member in the World War I and post-World War days, Curie developed mobile radiology units for thousand soldiers where they could be treated. The Curie Institute in Paris and Warsaw founded by her are popular research centres today. Studied in the University of Paris, the year of 2011 was declared as the Year of Marie Curie by Poland and France in her honour.
