Marie Curie
Curie briefly states that she cannot ask Mrs. Tyson to visit as her daughter has been ill, but they would love to have Mrs. Tyson visit after her return from Limoges. The first person to receive two Nobel Prizes (1903, 1911), Curie worked in collaboration with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, to isolate two new elements, polonium and radium. She pioneered work on the medical applications of x-rays and introduced the concept of radioactivity to the world. After her husband's death in 1906, she was invited to take over his teaching position at the University of Paris, the first woman in France to hold such a post. In 1921 she made a highly publicized tour of the United States, honored by women's organizations and the White House.
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