Day 19 of Women’s Herstory month, an important scientist and two time winner of the Nobel Prize:
Marie Curie changed the world not once but twice. She founded the new science of radioactivity – even the word
was invented by her – and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.“Curie boasts an extraordinary array of achievements,” says Patricia Fara, president of the British Society for the History of Science, who nominated the Polish-born French scientist. “She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person – note the use of person there, not woman – to win a second Nobel Prize.”
