Marie Curie

Marie Curie led the physics and chemistry side of the Radium Institute in Paris, built jointly by the University of Paris and the Pasteur Institute and completed in 1914, with Claudius Regaud running its medical research. She raised money abroad, including radium bought by American women's subscriptions in 1921, and helped found a second Radium Institute in Warsaw in 1932. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot discovered artificial radioactivity there.