Marie Curie Discovered Radium and Polonium and she is remembered for her huge contribution to finding treatments for Cancer!Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Born: November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland Died: July 4, 1934,