Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and her pioneering research on radioactivity influenced scientific fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, and medicine. In this captivating biographical resource that combines STEM and social studies concepts, readers follow this groundbreaking scientist from her childhood in Poland to her scientific success in Paris to her death due to the research that made her famous. Fact boxes, sidebars, critical-thinking questions, and historical photographs help readers understand the science Curie was so passionate about as well as what life was like for a female scientist during her time.