Marie Skłodowska Curie was a physicist and chemist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity, a term she coined. Her work not only earned her the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 (shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel) but also led her to become the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields, adding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium. Curie's achievements laid the foundation for the development of X-rays in surgery and research into treating diseases with radiation.
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