Historical Figures Born in 1867

Physicist · 1867 – 1934

Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity and became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

• Radioactivity research
• Discovery of polonium and radium

Inventor · 1867 – 1948

The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were American inventors who designed, built and flew the world's first successful powered aeroplane in 1903, launching the age of human flight.

• First powered flight (1903)
• Three-axis control