Marie Curie

Today, I asked Mom what woman she looked up to when she was a girl. She said she looked up to Marie Curie. I said, "Who?", she told me to look her up.

Marie Curie was a French physicist and chemist who experimented with radioactivity. She discovered that radiation didn't come from interactions between molecules, but rather from the atom itself. She was the first woman to have any amount of Nobel prizes, the only woman to earn two Nobel prizes in two different fields (physics and chemistry), and the only person to win it in multiple sciences. An impressive woman.