“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie was a Polish physicist, chemist and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She received her first Nobel Prize in physics for her research on uncontrolled radiation, which was discovered by Henri Becquerel. And her second was in 1911 when she received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This award was in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.
