I've never understood why Marie Curie is so celebrated in the popular press, but Noether is largely ignored. Noether's work is much more important, IMHO.
Noether did maths, Marie Curie did physics, physics is more popular than maths.
It is easy to see why, symmetries, conserved properties, boring, nuclear power, atomic bombs, deadly radiation, exciting.
Einstein is a rare instance of a popular theoretical physicist. But all the mathematicians whose work led to the theories of relativity are largely unknown to the public.
Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes, for physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Prize, and the first person to win two. She died of radiation exposure from her experiments. Can't really argue with that.
It is easy to see why, symmetries, conserved properties, boring, nuclear power, atomic bombs, deadly radiation, exciting.
Einstein is a rare instance of a popular theoretical physicist. But all the mathematicians whose work led to the theories of relativity are largely unknown to the public.