Marie Skłodowska Curie 👩🏻‍🔬

Physicist ⚛️ and Chemist 🧪

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish 🇵🇱 and French 🇫🇷 physicist and chemist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize 🏆, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific disciplines. In 1903, she and her husband Pierre Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their joint research on radioactivity ☢️. In 1911, she won the Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the latter named after her native country.

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