In
the
last
100
years
,
more
women
have
become
scients
,
writers
,
and
than
ever
before
.
For
example
,
Rachel
Carson
was
a
scientist
and
writer
who
started
the
movement
in
the
1960s
.
Indira
Gandhi
was
a
politician
who
became
the
first
Indian
Prime
Minister
in
1966
.
The
of
these
extraordinary
women
and
many
others
have
changed
the
world
.
This
week
,
we
present
Marie
Curie
,
the
polish
-
france
physicist
and
chemist
,
who
was
one
of
the
greatest
scientists
of
the
20th
century
.
She
was
also
the
first
woman
to
win
a
Nobel
Prize
,
and
the
only
person
to
win
two
Nobel
Prizes
in
different
subjects
,
physics
and
chemistry
.
Maria
Skiodowska
was
born
in
Warsaw
,
in
1867
.
Marie
went
to
Paris
to
study
mathematics
and
physics
.
She
met
Pierre
Curie
,
who
was
a
-
scientist
.
They
got
married
in
.
Marie
Curie
is
famous
for
her
work
on
radiation
,
she
named
'radioactivity
.
She
used
the
word
"
radioactive
"
'
to
describe
substances
that
produce
.
Scientists
already
knew
about
the
existence
of
"
X
-
rays
"
but
they
didn't
know
what
they
were
.
Marie
curie's
research
showed
that
these
radioactive
rays
come
from
.
She
discovered
polonium
and
radium
,
which
are
radioactive
elements
.
Her
research
was
for
the
use
of
x
-
rays
in
medicine
.
She
knew
that
doctors
could
use
x
-
rays
to
broken
bones
.
During
World
War
I
,
she
organized
twenty
mobile
x
-
ray
units
to
help
doctors
.
Marie
also
discovered
that
doctors
could
use
another
radioactive
element
,
called
radon
,
to
treat
cancer
.
Marie
Curie
great
opposition
from
scientists
in
France
,
but
she
never
gave
up
her
research
.
She
died
in
1934
from
leukemia
that
she
developed
because
of
her
to
radiation
.
In
those
days
,
the
health
dangers
of
radioactivity
were
.
Her
daughter
Irene
Curie
was
also
a
great
scientist
won
the
Nobel
Prize
for
Chemistry
in
1935
.