Curia Marie

Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish physicist and chemist. An exceptional scientist, she is the first woman to have received the Nobel Prize and the only woman to have received two. She remains the only person to have been awarded in two distinct scientific fields. She was also the first woman to be awarded the Davy Medal in 1903 with her husband for her work on radium. In France, Marie Curie is the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne, and the first woman honored for her own merits to be buried in the Pantheon.