Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes.
She won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for research into radioactivity. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the elements polonium and radium, isolating radium, and studying its properties. She remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867 and later moved to Paris, where she studied at the Sorbonne. Her research helped establish radioactivity as a field of science, and her work had important consequences for medical imaging and cancer treatment.
The 1903 Physics Prize was shared; it was not awarded solely to Curie. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie later won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making the Curie family especially significant in Nobel history.