Happy birthday to the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to claim Nobel honors twice, and the only woman to win the award in two different fields: Marie Curie, born #OnThisDay in 1867 in Warsaw. 
"Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds (...) and don't know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory."
When Pierre Curie, her husband, died suddenly, she refused a government pension and instead took his place as a professor at the University of Paris.
She is also the mother of another Nobel Prize winner, Irène Joliot-Curie.
She is also the mother of another Nobel Prize winner, Irène Joliot-Curie.
Some of her personal belongings are still radioactive to this day.
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