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Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy.
Marie Curie died in 1934, at 66, of leukemia, which was believed to have been caused by her prolonged exposure to radioactive material. In 1940, after France fell, Eve Curie went to England to work for the Free French. She later served in Europe with the women s division of Gen. Charles de Gaulle s Fighting French.