Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, (born July 30, 1947, Paris, France), French virologist who was a corecipient, with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She and Montagnier shared half the prize for their work in identifying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Barré-Sinoussi earned a Ph.D. (1975) at the Pasteur Institute in Garches, France, and did postdoctoral work in the United States at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1975 she joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and in 1996 she became head of the Retrovirus Biology Unit (later called Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit) there. From 2012 to 2014 Barré-Sinoussi was president of the International AIDS Society.
When Montagnier led efforts at the Pasteur Institute in 1982 to determine a cause for AIDS, Barré-Sinoussi was a member of his team. Through dissection of an infected patient’s lymph node, they determined that AIDS was caused by a retrovirus, which came to be known as HIV. Their work led to the development of new antiviral drugs and diagnostic methods. (Data from Britannica)
Marie Curie, Polish-born French, Physicist and Chemist (1867-1934) Marie Sklodowska is the only person to be awarded a Nobel prize in two different sciences: in 1903 in Physics, jointly with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity; and in1911 in chemistry for isolating radium in the state of the pure salt, and characterizing it as a new element.
She discovered that thorium is radioactive and then demonstrated the existence of two new radioactive elements: radium and polonium.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/curie/
http://focus.tv5monde.com/femmesetsciences/2013/04/11/marie-curie-nee-sklodowska-1867-1934/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1911/marie-curie-lecture.html
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