Marie Curie (1867-1934)

She was a chemistry and physics Polish pioneer in the field of radioactivity. She made history, becoming the first person who received two Nobel prizes, the physic one, with her husband Pierre, in recognition of their studies of radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel and the second, chemical because of the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this element. She was also the first woman who began teaching as a professor at the University of Paris.

She died because of  the radioactivity that she was studying.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Florence Nightingale, after serving in the Crimean War as an assistant; became one of the pionners of the modern medicine, and creator of the first model of infirmary, which determineted  the necessity of a healthy environment for the cure of patients. Also, she became the first woman who was accepted by the british Royal Statitical Society thanks to her knowledges of maths.

She had been an important character for the modern medicine