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Marie Curie

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Profession
Physicist
Died
Jul 4, 1934
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
WarsawPoland
About
Polish physicist and chemist who discovered two radioactive elements: radium and polonium. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won the award for physics. In 1911, she won the award again for chemistry.
Family
Her real name is Marie Sklodowska Curie. She married Pierre Curie, a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize with her, on July 26, 1895. The couple had two children, Irène Joliot-Curie, who followed in her parents' footsteps and became a scientist, and Ève Curie, who went on to become a writer.

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