Marie Sklodowska-Curie and two Nobel Prizes

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes: the 1903 Prize in Physics, shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for research on radioactivity, and the 1911 Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium, the isolation of radium, and study of its properties. She was a physicist and chemist; the discovery of radium was collaborative work by Marie and Pierre Curie.