We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She was the first female Nobel Laureate.
Marie Curie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It was awarded in 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
In 1935, Marie Curie's daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frederic Joliot, "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements".
In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances".
The most recent female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Ada E. Yonath in 2009 "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
