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Madame Curie Classics helped lead to important advancesMarie Sklodowska Curie (1867 1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911), she performed pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. The history of her story book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit from