You're looking at Marie Curie, the mother of modern physics. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and the only person to ever win Nobels in two different sciences: Physics and Chemistry. But her discoveries didn’t just shape the modern world. They quietly poisoned her body, glowed in her notebooks, and left behind a legacy both brilliant and haunting. In the 1890s, Marie and her husband Pierre Curie began isolating mysterious, energy-emitting elements from tons of uranium ore.

Marie Curie rose to the pinnacle of scientific fame in the early 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize twice, in physics and chemistry. In an era in which women were not accepted as scientists, Curie overcame enormous obstacles to earn a doctorate at the Sorbonne and engage in her pathbreaking research on radioactive materials. Learn more about Curie's life and accomplishments as Professor Robert Simons discusses his case, “Marie Curie: Changing the World.” https://hbs.me/cc-mariecurie #IWD2023