She is the only person to receive 2 Nobel prizes. In WWI, Madame Curie designed mobile X-ray units–think ambulances with x-ray machines–for emergency medicine on the fields of war, saving countless lives. It wasn’t carrying radium in her pocket that she thought made her ill & eventually killed her. It was her continued exposure to x-rays. She was a war hero.

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