Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Marie Curie, was Polish-French physicist. She was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, but in 1891 she moved to Paris, France to continue her studies. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (Physics in 1903¹⁾, shared with her partner and husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and Chemistry in 1911²⁾), and the only person that win Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields. She was also the first woman to become professor at the University of Paris.

Marie received Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 shared with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Second daughter, Ève Curie, was the only family member who didn't become scientist and didn't win Nobel Prize, but her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, received Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF³⁾.