Marie Curie
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Timeline of Marie Curie's Life:
• 1867 - Born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire • 1877 - Attended Boarding School • 1883 - Graduated from a girls gymnasium • 1889 - Worked as a governess • 1890 - Tutored and Studied at the Flying University • 1891 - Left Poland for France and enrolled in the University of Paris • 1893 - Awarded a degree in Physics • 1894 - Earned a second degree in Mathematics or Chemistry • 1895 - Married Pierre Curie • 1897 - Her daughter Irène was born • 1898 - Marie discovered the element Polonium with her husband Pierre Curie and named it after Poland • 1898 - Marie and Pierre discovered radium by extracting 1 mg of radium from ten tonnes of the uranium ore pitchblende • 1903 - Awarded: Nobel Prize in Physics, Davy Medal and wrote her thesis on Research on Radioactive Substances • 1904 - Matteucci Medal • 1907 - Actonian Prize • 1909 - Elliott Cresson Medal • 1910 - Albert Medal • 1911 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry • 1921 - Willard Gibbs Award • 1931 - Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh • 1934 - Died, aged 66 at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy (Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anaemia
You can read more about the amazing Marie Curie on her Wikipedia entry.