13. Marie Curie, born November 7, 1867, under the sign of Scorpio
Scorpios are said to enjoy working with others as a team, with many of them becoming their most productive under such an arrangement. They are passionate over their work, ambitious and determined, though the influence of Pluto is said to make them somewhat secretive. Marie Curie was a Polish-born chemist and physicist who conducted early work on the subject of radioactivity. Marie didn’t just win the Nobel Prize, she won it twice, in two different fields, the only woman to have done so at this writing. She did most of her work in teams which included her students, her husband, and his brother. In just four years at the turn of the nineteenth century (1898-1902) Marie and Pierre Curie published 32 scientific papers announcing their discoveries, up to then kept secret.
One of them was the announcement that exposure to radium destroyed tumors and the diseased cells within them faster than healthy adjoining cells. In 1906 her husband Pierre was struck by a horse-drawn vehicle as he crossed a Paris street and killed. During World War, I Marie established a Corps of mobile X-ray units to travel with the medical units of the French Army. They were called Petites Curies (Little Curies). Curie paid the price for her longstanding work with radiation when she developed aplastic anemia in 1934. None of the safety precautions when working with radiation later installed were available when she and her teams conducted their pioneering work.