Day 11 of my series of 31 women I admire is Marie Curie.
Marie Curie is the first person to win the Nobel Prize in 2 different categories. She discovered Radium and Polonium, and busted her ass in science because getting an education as a woman was not an easy task. She is responsible for changing our understanding of radiation. Fun fact? Her coffin is lined with almost an inch of lead because she’s still radioactive. And her notebooks? They’re so radioactive that it’s said they’ll still be that way for another 1500 years.
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