Marie Curie is known as one of the most important people in medicine. Even though she is known for her work in medicine, she has actually don’t have a degree in medicine and her biggest achievements, has nothing directly to do with medicine.
Marie Curie was born as Maria Skłodowska in 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. As a a young woman she moved to Paris and studied maths and physics at one of the top Universities, Sorbonne University. As a 36 year old woman she won the the Nobel prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie, for the research withing radiation. She was the first woman to ever been given a Nobel Prize.
In 1911 she was again given a Nobel Prize, but this time within Chemistry. In recognition of her discovery of two new elements, Polonium and Radium. She was the first person to ever have been given two Nobel prizes in two different categories.
Even though her discoveries aren’t directly linked to medicine, her discoveries has impacted medicine in many different ways when it comes to radiation.
She died in 1934, from leukemia, probably mostly linked to her work within radiation.