<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences . </Td> </Tr> <P> Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ ˈkjʊəri /; French: (kyʁi); Polish: (kjiˈri); born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 1867--4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized - French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity . She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes . She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris . </P> <P> She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire . She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw . In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work . She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel . She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . </P>

Only person to win two nobel prizes in two fields