Before broaching the subject of this lecture, I should like to recall that the discoveries of radium and of polonium were made by Pierre Curie in collaboration with me.
Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different science categories An astounding scientist
And then, finally, if that wasn't enough which it should've been This is Madame Curie killing herself by discovering Radium, who, although she was a naturalized French citizen, was Polish by birth!
Marie Curie spent the rest of her life working with distinction in the field, helping to found the celebrated Radium Institute of the University of Paris in 1914.