Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Curie won the prize in physics in 1903 along with her husband Pierre Curie. Curie also happens to be the only woman who has won the prize more than once as she won the prize in chemistry in 1911. Marie Curie was a Polis Physicist.
She was also part of a family that held a legacy for winning Nobel Prizes. The Curie family legacy won a total of five Nobel Prizes. Along with these achievements she was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1995.