The trailblazing Polish female scientist was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in physics and the only one so far to have been awarded the accolade in two different areas, physics and chemistry.
She was also the first woman to become a professor at the Sorbonne, the first lady among the members of the National Academy of Medicine in Paris and the first woman whose ashes were enshrined in the Pantheon in Paris.
One place to find out more about her legacy is Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, a cultural institution co-organized by the Polish Chemical Society.
Danuta Isler visited the museum and brought back this report.
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