Marie Curie is most famous for her work on radioactivity. She was one of the first physicists to study the phenomenon. She and her husband, Pierre Curie, discovered two radioactive elements, polonium and radium. She also isolated pure radium. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only woman to win a Nobel in two different fields.
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