Marie Curie was the first person to win a Nobel Prize for both Physics and Chemistry. She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium. Curie was the first woman to achieve such distinctions, paving the way for future female scientists and becoming a symbol of scientific achievement and gender equality in the sciences.