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Marie Curie
(The First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize)
Birth Year: 1867
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: July 4, 1934
Marie Curie made significant contributions to the fields of physics and chemistry through her groundbreaking research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice in two scientific fields. Curie's collaboration with her husband Pierre Curie resulted in the discovery of the elements polonium and radium. She coined the term "radioactivity" and advanced techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and utilizing radiation in medical treatments.