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Marie Curie was a Polish-born and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She also discovered the chemical elements Polonium and Radium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize, making them the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. She died in 1934 at the age of 66 from aplastic anemia due to exposure to radioactivity in the course of her research.
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