Marie Curie, with her husband, Pierre Curie, discovered two radioactive elements, polonium and radium. She was also able to isolate radium in its pure metallic state. She won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, for their work with radioactivity, and she won the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work in isolating radium.
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