Question: only person to win two nobel prizes in two fields
Answer: Marie Skłodowska Curie ( / ˈkjʊəri / ; French : ( kyʁi ) ; Polish : ( kjiˈri ) ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska ; 7 November 1867 -- 4 July 1934 ) was a Polish and naturalized - French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity .