Marie Curie: Iconic Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner…War Hero?
Marie Curie in one of her mobile X-ray units in October 1917. (Credit: Eve Curie)
Ask people to name the most famous historical woman of science and their answer will likely be: Madame Marie Curie. Push further and ask what she did, and they might say it was something related to radioactivity. (She actually discovered the radioisotopes radium and polonium.) Some might also know that she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. (She actually won two.)/.../
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