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Two time Nobel Prize winner (1903 and 1911)! **Marie Curie** was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
 * Marie Curie 1867-1934** 

She was born **Maria Skłodowska** in Warsaw Poland and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister to study in Paris where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes. //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie//