Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a pioneering physicist and chemist whose research transformed modern science. Born in Warsaw and later working in Paris, Curie conducted groundbreaking studies on radioactivity, a term she helped to define. Together with her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the elements polonium and radium.Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize when she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their research on radiation. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for her discovery of radium and polonium and her investigation of radioactive substances. She remains the only person to have received Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.Her discoveries laid the foundation for advances in nuclear physics, radiochemistry, and medical radiation therapy. Today Marie Curie is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.