Marie Curie, who worked alongside her husband, Pierre
Marie Curie, born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Germany in 1867 was raised in with focus on education, and was able to receive furthered scientific training from her father, peaking her interest in the field at a young age. She moved to Paris in 1891 to continue her studies and obtained Licentiateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. She married Pierre Curie in 1895 after meeting him at her college and they went on to make great scientific breakthroughs together while she worked for her Doctor of Science Degree she recieved in 1903, the same year they collectively received the Nobel Prize. After Pierre Curie died in 1906, she took his place as professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, and was the first woman to ever do this. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914. She died in July of 1934, an esteemed and respected scientist.