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Curie, Marie

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  1. 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).

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Around 1900, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie’s husband, deliberately burned his arm with radium as part of their radiation experiments.

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