Marie Curie

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement.”
- Marie Curie

The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in 1903 (she won it twice: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911), Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist who is known for her breakthrough ideas in radioactivity and her discovery of two elements, radon, and polonium.