Our world continually presents us with anomalies: Things we don’t expect. Thingsthat don’t fit our norms. These anomalies can be rejected out of hand, or they can be examined more closely to challenge our expectations for how the world works. Certainly during her lifetime, Marie Curie was seen as an anomaly. She was one the first women to be awarded a Ph.D. in Science in Europe, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and as well as the first scientist of either gender to receive the Nobel Prize for science twice in her lifetime.
