Marie Curie, Ray of Light for Science and Innovation — iq.intel.com

The first female Nobel Prize winner blazed a trail for today’s scientists and technology researchers. Because women in the 1880s weren’t allowed to attend university in her native Poland, Maria Sklodowska studied underground, attending classes at night and in changing locations to avoid detection by the Russian czar’s police. To earn money to further her education, she took a job as a governess for five years, attending illegal tutoring sessions and training in a hidden lab, because Poles were forbidden from teaching or learning laboratory science.

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