TIL Marie Curie gave away most of her Nobel Prize money, repaid the scholarship she received as a student as soon as she began working, and refrained from patenting the radiation-isolation process so that the scientific community would not have any trouble with continuing research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
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