First woman nobel prize winner

Marie curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel prize, she was also a first person in the history of world to be awarded with the two Nobel prize. In 1903 she received Nobel prize in Physics and in 1911 she won Nobel prize in Chemistry. She is known for the study of radioactivity and discovering the radioactive elements Radium and Polonium. Marie curie was born in 7 November 1867 at Warsaw, poland and died in 4 july 1934.