1.4M views · 14K reactions | How much do you know about Marie Curie? Curie dedicated her life to science. She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded twice and is still the only person to receive the prize in two different scientific fields. Curie died #OTD in 1934. | Nobel Prize | Facebook

106K views · 3K reactions | Today we remember one of the world's greatest scientists: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Curie dedicated her life to science. She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded twice and is still the only person to receive the prize in two different scientific fields. Curie died #OTD in 1934. | Nobel Prize | Facebook

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences: Physics and Chemistry.Often regarded as the mother of modern physics, Curie became the first woman in France to earn a PhD, while not being permitted to attend college due to the gender.Marie Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered the elements polonium and radium. The name "polonium" is a tribute to Marie's homeland,