Marie+Curie

Marie Curie was the first woman to ever win the Nobel Prize. She also won it again with her husband, becoming the first hunsband, wife combo to ever win the coveted award. She won it the first time in 1903 with her husband Pierre and they shared it with Henri Bacquerel. Marie coined the term radioactivity. Her contribution was trying to purify Radium to its purest state. Pierre had been working on on the physical aspects of Radium and Polonium. Marie discovored the latter and named it after her country of origin, Poland. Her second Nobel Prize was achieved alone because Pierre had been fatally hit by a car in 1906. In 1911 she recieved the prize again for finally getting Radium to it's purest state and finding it's chemical properties. Later in her life, she worked in the medical field teaching nurses to use x-rays to find bullets in soldiers during the first World War. In 1932 she opened a Radium Institute in Poland under the direction of her sister. When she died of leukemia in 1934 due to long term exposure to radioactivity, the institute was renamed the Curie Institute (Below). She was buried twice, the second time in the Panthenon in Paris to celebrate her accomplishments. Her possesions there with her are encased in lead due to the radiation hazard. In 1935 her daughter Irene won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, making them the first mother daughter duo to do so.