Birth name: Maria Salomea Sklodowska
Born: November 7, 1867.
Occupation: A Polish physicist and chemist who discovered two radioactive elements: radium and polonium. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won the award for physics. In 1911 she won the award again for chemistry.
Before Fame: She was born poor because her family gave up their property during the Polish national uprisings.
Trivia: She was the first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person to win multiple Nobel Prizes.
Family Life: She married Pierre Curie, a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize with her, on July 26, 1895. The couple had two children, Irène Joliot-Curie, who followed in her parents footsteps and became a scientist, and Ève Curie, who went on to become a writer.
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