Claim: Marie Curie studied in Poland and gained recognition.
Evidence: She studied at Warsaw 's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw.
She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity -LRB- a term that she coined -RRB- , techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes , and the discovery of two elements , polonium and radium.
She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel.