Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the prize twice, in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. With her husband Pierre she isolated the elements polonium and radium through pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. During the First World War she developed mobile radiography units, known as Little Curies, to bring X-ray imaging to field hospitals near the front, helping battlefield surgeons save limbs that might otherwise have required amputation. She also pioneered the use of radioactive isotopes to treat tumors, foundational work for modern cancer therapy, and founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920 and in Warsaw in 1932, both still major medical research centers.
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Marie Curie born 7 November 1867
Associated With: Nuclear Medicine, Legacy section, radioactive isotopes paragraph
Under Curie's direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes.
Associated With: Radiology, World War I section, mobile radiography units paragraph
After a quick study of radiology, anatomy, and automotive mechanics, she procured X-ray equipment, vehicles, and auxiliary generators, and she developed mobile radiography units, which came to be popularly known as petites Curies ("Little Curies").
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