How was Marie Curie, née Skłodowska awarded the Noble Prize?

Radiation research was pioneered by Salomea Skodowska-Curie, a physicist and chemist. She was born in Poland and later became a naturalized French citizen. “through the discovery of the elements radium and polonium by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element” and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.