Marie Curie was a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to the field of physics and chemistry. Her daughter, Irene, was also a scientist and shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband in 1935. EVE, another daughter of Marie Curie, was a physicist and chemist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb. Radium, which Marie Curie discovered, was a radioactive element that she and her husband Pierre isolated from pitchblende. Marie Curie was also known as MADAME Curie, and she and Pierre were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.