Title: Marie Curie

Polish chemistry by birth, a great defender of her homeland, and a French nationalized.

She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 together with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henry Becquerel for their discoveries in the field of radioactivity.
In 1911, five years after her husband's death, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone. The press published her recent relationship with Paul Langevin, and part of French society questioned her worth and accused her of being a broken family, a dissolute woman, a Polish temptation and a Jewish woman.

During World War I, he created the first radiological centers and mobile X-ray units. Her daughter Irene was also a driving force.

She promoted the creation of the Radium Institute, the origin of the Curie Institutes to study the effects of radium on cancer healing.

She conducted early studies of the treatment of neoplasms with radioactive isotopes. The Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw are still important medical research centres.