Marie Curie
Marie Curie is a French chemist and physicist born in Poland, which until now were the only people who ever get the Nobel prize in two different fields, namely physics and chemistry. Her discovery made Marie Curie in the field of radioactivity into the list of influential inventors to the world. Marie Curie was the first woman Nobel Prize winner and also was the first woman professor at the university, Universities of Paris.
Although the nationality of France, Marie Curie has never lost a sense of pride as a Pole. The discovery of the first chemical element found in 1898 was named “polonium” and the subsequent discovery of the radium a few months later. Radium is a radioactive substance which is widely used in the medical field and medicine, usually to remove cancer cells to irradiate the cancer with radioactive substances.
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