The Westport Library’s Marie Curie LibGuide celebrates the trailblazing physicist and chemist born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Poland, who pioneered radioactivity research with husband Pierre, discovering polonium and radium while earning two Nobel Prizes—the first woman and only person to do so in different sciences. It details her journey from modest roots to Sorbonne professor, WWI "petites Curies" X-ray units for battlefield medicine, and enduring legacy at France’s top scientific complex. Ideal for Westport students or science buffs, this biography hub draws from History Channel and Smithsonian insights on her shy genius amid global fame.
