Curie, Marie

A French chemist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, born in Poland . With her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the element radium .

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Marie Curie was the first major female scientist of modern times.

Marie Curie was the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences ( physics and chemistry ).

That would be Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, the gal who discovered radioactive polonium.

It is well known that Pierre and Marie Curie used this new-found radioactivity to identify the new elements polonium and radium.

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