Quotes by Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie left Poland to study in Paris, discovered polonium and radium with her husband Pierre, and coined the term radioactivity. She is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences, and in the First World War she equipped mobile X-ray units and drove one herself. She refused to patent the radium isolation process. She died of aplastic anaemia caused by the exposure; her notebooks are still too radioactive to handle without protection.