Everything about Marie Curie was exceptional. To start with, how many people can you think of who have four Nobel Prize laureates in their immediate family?
She did! Marie, her husband (Pierre), her daughter (Irene), and her son-in-law (Frederic), they were all Nobel Prize winners.
Moreover, how many scientists do you know who were awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize twice in two different scientific disciplines?
Marie! The first time she won it in physics, in 1903, and the second time in chemistry, in 1911.
Marie Curie was the first woman in the history of science to win the Nobel Prize. She was the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate degree in scientific research, and the first female lecturer and professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Her discoveries in radiation (a word she coined) changed the world, and to this day she remains one of the most famous female scientists in the world.
