Marie and Pierre Curie in their laboratory in Paris. Illustration from Le Petit Parisien, Jan, 10, 1904. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist and multiple Nobel laureate. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Pierre Curie (1859-1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate.

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