Curie, Marie

French (Polish-born) chemist and physicist

with Pierre Curie, co-discovered elements polonium 1898, radium 1898

discovered radioactivity of thorium

1895 - Wife of Pierre Curie 

1906 - 1st woman to teach at the Sorbonne

1910 - with Andre Debierne, co-discovered pure metallic form of radium

1903 - Nobel Prize in Physics

1911 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1934 - Died of leukemia due to longtime research exposure to radioactivity