Marie Curie is one of the rare Nobel Prize winners who has won two of those awards -- and in different fields, too. One in chemistry, one in physics. (At this writing, there's only been one other winner in two different fields, Linus Pauling.) As a pioneer researcher in radioactivity, Marie Curie came up with the standard measurement for such emissions, and it was named the "curie" for her and for her husband and co-researcher. And she did her work for years as a single mother, after the early and tragic death of Pierre Curie. Learn more about Marie Curie:
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