Marie Curie.  A name that has fallen by the wayside despite the numerous accomplishments that stand behind it. As a physicist and chemist who conducted various experiments and pioneered research on radioactivity, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize as well as the first person ever to win one twice. Some feats overcome while accompanied by Pierre Curie, a fellow scientist and husband, include: the discovery of elements polonium and radium, the discovery of uranium minerals pitch blade and torbernite, and the publication of a paper which announced that when exposed to uranium cells that were diseased and tumor-forming were destroyed faster than healthy cells.  When asked to speak at a conference for these groundbreaking discoveries, Marie Curie was forbidden from speaking because of her gender, leaving her husband with the job of delivering the news.  Despite this, she challenged the ‘gender norms’ when she became the first woman professor at the University of Paris.  She then moved on to successfully isolate radium and to define an international standard for radioactive emissions.  During WWI she acted as the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service, utilizing radon (a gas emitted by radium) to sterilize infected tissue and also issued the use of X-Ray units on wounded soldiers.  As a woman who broke ‘gender norms’ and served to benefit the science community and lives of others, Marie Curie is a name that should be known by many.