Maria Skłodowska-Curie (French: Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, also widely known as Madame Curie; Warsaw, Russian-occupied Poland, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934, Sancellemoz, France) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the early field of radioactivity, later becoming the first two-time Nobel laureate and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science (physics and chemistry). She also became the first woman appointed to teach at the Sorbonne.