Madam Marie Curie
Madam Marie Curie was a naturalized French physicist as well as chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was born on 7 November, 1867 in Warsaw (the capital of Poland) Poland. She studied at Warsaw`s Clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. She was the first women to won a Noble Prize and also first person to won twice Noble Prize in two different science. She was also the first women to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first women to be entombed on her own merits in the Pantheon in Paris. Her achievements included the development of – ‘the theory of Radioactivity’ (a term that she coined), ‘technique for isolating radioactive isotope’ and ‘the discovery of two elements – Polonium and Radium. In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the existence of x-rays, though the mechanism behind their production was not yet understood. And in 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered ...