Ah, yes, Marie Curie, woman of action. Don't laugh, when WWI broke out she outfitted a van with what was then a state-of-the-art X-ray unit and set out for the front with her daughter. That would be
Irene Joliot-Curie, who must have thought her Mum was nuts but went along. She, incidentally, was awarded a Nobel Prize as well, in chemistry, for identifying what she and her husband Frederic called "artificial radiation", which we call Beta decay. Counting her husband and her father, that's four Nobels in one family. Not bad, not bad...