Following in footsteps of Louis Pasteur I guess. Wasn’t there another famous French medical pioneer, maybe a woman or woman and man? Driving me crazy I can’t think of it.
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
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