marie+curie

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a nobel prize. curie also founded the Curie institutes in Warsaw and in Paris. Curie was also the first woman to receive two nobel prizes
 * Marie Skłodowska Curie** (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes[1]—in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris her achievements include the creation of a theory of //radioactivity// (a term she coined[2]), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the new discovery of two new elements radium and polonium. She won the nobel peace prize for chemistry in 1911 she named the elemnt polonium after her native cpuntry Poland.