Marie Curieis famous as a history - making chemist , physicist , and two - clip Nobel Prize succeeder . Now she ’s been given another title : the most influential woman of all time , according toBBC History Magazine .
Curie bear the No.1 spot on the leaning of 100 significant woman that will be appearing in the magazine in honor of the centennial of women ’s vote in the UK . The 100 female figures were nominated by 10 experts , each represent a unlike field of human endeavor . BBC Historyreaders then vote on the listing to determine ranking .
The Polish physicist blazed trail at the turn of the twentieth hundred . She discovered two new elements , radium and Po ; strike the termradioactivity ; and grow a portable ten - ray machine to facilitate do by soldier during World War II . And her achievements are n’t simply monumental because she was a woman . When she brought home her 2d Nobel Prize , she became the first mortal of any sex to win the award double . To this 24-hour interval , she stay on the only person , man or woman , to pick up Nobel Prizes for two different science ( physics and interpersonal chemistry ) .
Patricia Fara , president of the British Society for the History of Science and Curie ’s nominator , toldBBC account , " The odds were always heap against her . In Poland her loyal kinsfolk suffered under a Russian regime . In France she was regarded with intuition as a foreigner — and of course , wherever she went , she was discriminated against as a cleaning woman . "
Curie is join on the list by a server of iconic cleaning woman who have shaped the trajectories of government , literature , activism , and more . Ranking No.2 isRosa Parks , the African - American woman who launch a movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white rider . Ada Lovelace , the first computing machine software engineer , Florence Nightingale , the father of modern nursing , andAmelia Earhart , the far-famed flyer , also come out high on the listing .
you’re able to check out the full round - up onBBC History’swebsite .
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