Isaac Newton Room
(1867 – 1934)
Marie Sklodowski Curie, a Polish scientist who became a naturalized French citizen, conducted pioneering research in the field of radioactivity.
She was the first woman to be admitted as a professor at the University of Paris and to win a Nobel Prize. She was awarded two Nobel Prizes: the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Becquerel and her husband Pierre Curie, in 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alone, in 1911.