Marie is the French form of Mary — from the Hebrew *Miriam* (uncertain; possibly "beloved" or "bitter"). **Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934)** was the **Polish-French physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium; coined the term "radioactivity"; and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences** (Physics 1903 with husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel; Chemistry 1911 alone). **First woman to win a Nobel; first person and only woman to win twice; only person to win in two scientific fields**. **Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.**
Subject of Eve Curie's *Madame Curie* (1937) and Marjane Satrapi's *Radioactive* (2019 film).
Marie reduces to six — the number of double-Nobel laureate.