Media and PEOPLE, is to recognize female trailblazers throughout the past 100 years and celebrate how they’ve helped to shape history and culture.
“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty,” she once explained of her time in school.Her marriage to Pierre Curie, a fellow physicist, was a true match of scientific mind. The two discovered two radioactive elements together: polonium and radium. Their revolutionary work earned the couple the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, marking the first time a woman was given the honor.
Love this story of a pair of inspiring women who made their own rules (and changed the world along the way). ⭐️