Top 10 Scientists Of All Time

8) Marie Curie (1867 to 1934 AD)                                          (8 of 10)

8) Marie Curie (1867 to 1934 AD)                                          (8 of 10)

Marie Curie was awarded not one but 2 Nobel Prizes, one in Physics in 1903 and the other one in Chemistry in 1911. Apart from being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, she became the only person to win the Nobel Prize in 2 different fields!

Curie also set up the first ever radiology center for France during World War 1 and developed numerous radiography units and vehicles that saved countless soldiers’ life. Her main field of research was radioactivity-techniques in order to isolate radioactive isotopes and is credited for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.