Through the years of modern science many people have come and gone making contributions to science, whether it be chemistry, physics, or another scientific field. Some people have been able to produce results in multiple fields, including chemistry. Marie Curie was able to make contributions to physics and chemistry just as Nobel was an engineer and chemist creating dynamite. Finally the physicist Michael Faraday was able to make a contribution to chemistry that is still used today. On 7 November 1867 Marie Curie was born Maria Salomea Sklodowska to parents Wladyslaw Skodowski and Bronislaw Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland. Curie was brilliant from an early age, learning to read at age 4 and finishing high school at age 15. He continued to study at the Warsaw clandestine school. At the age of 24 Curie continued to study in Paris just as her sister did in the medical field. At the age of 28 Marie Curie was able to marry her spouse Pierre Curie in France in 1895. However this marriage was broken off and Pierre died only 11 years later. Marie contributed most of her known work to France and during her time there became the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, which she shared with her husband and Henri Becquerel in the field of physics. He won another Nobel Prize in Chemistry 8 years later in 1911 for chemistry. In 1934 Curie died in France from aplastic anemia caused by overexposure to radiation. This is believed to have been caused by his work in World War I, where he used his self-created X-ray units. An important contribution of Marie Curie to the field of chemistry was the discovery of two new radioactive elements: radium and polonium (named after...... middle of paper ......er after the dynamite created by Nobel, a form of explosive that is still used today Nobel understood that nitroglycerin is very volatile in its natural state in order to fix this problem Alfred Nobel was able to solve it by mixing this liquid with silica, turning it into a paste that we know as dynamite , this was incredibly useful for mining because it could take a cylindrical shape and be inserted into holes created by mining drills. So, all these chemists lived their lives and were able to produce significant advances in the field of chemistry, whether it is finding a new element or creating an explosive that will revolutionize the field of mining. These people are also able to make a contribution that we use in our chemistry laboratories to this day in the form of a Bunsen burner. All of these people lived and did great things and changed the field of chemistry forever.