Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1867, in Warsaw Poland, Marie Curie was born.
Marie Curie was a scientist working in the fields of physics and chemistry. But her groundbreaking work came in her work with radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice, and the only person to win it in two different scientific fields. She worked with her husband Pierre Curie and together they discovered the elements polonium and radium. She coined the phrase "radioactivity" itself. She developed techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and using radiation in medical technics.
She died in 1934 at the age of 66 from aplastic anemia, probably caused by all her exposures to radiation. Still, she is what I call a genius. And a badass as well.
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