What were Marie curie contributes?

Answer 1

She contributed to cancer research by discovering radium, whose gas can heal scar tissue. Also, in World War 1, she got together dozens of trucks, called "Little Curies" and filled them with donated x-ray equipment, saving over a million lives. She discovered polonium, radium, and coined the word radioactivity. She was also the first female to win a nobel prize, and the first person ever to win two nobel prizes. She was also the first female professor at Sorbonne University, in Paris.

Answer 2

Marie Curie's main contributions were in the field of radioactivity. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, and her research laid the foundation for the development of X-ray technology. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (physics and chemistry).