As a girl in Poland, Maria Sklodowska was not allowed to study at university. ✨🎤Universities in her country accepted only men. ✨🎤So she worked for years as a teacher, saved money, and moved to Paris. ✨🎤

In Paris she studied physics, often forgetting to eat because she was so focused. ✨🎤With her husband Pierre, she discovered two new elements: polonium and radium. ✨🎤In 1903 she became the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. ✨🎤Eight years later she won a second one — in a different science. ✨🎤

During the First World War, she built mobile X-ray machines and drove them to hospitals herself. ✨🎤Her equipment helped doctors treat more than a million wounded soldiers. ✨🎤To this day, she is the only person with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. ✨🎤Her advice to students was simple: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." ✨🎤