1867 - Marie Skłodowska Curie was born.

Curie was a Polish-French chemist and physicist who pioneered the study of radioactivity. She was awarded two Nobel Prizes: the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Baquerel and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium. She died as a result of radiation poisoning before the health effects of radiation were known.