Marie Curie
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Marie Sklodowska Curie was one of the first woman scientists to win
world-wide fame and win a Nobel prize. She was born on November 7, 1867 in
Warsaw, Poland. Her family was poor and consisted of her mother, a
musician, her father, a teacher and her three older sisters and her brother.
Her family ....
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.... or pitchblende, contained much more radioactivity than
could be explained solely by the uranium content.
She was the most famous woman in physics and was recognised as one
of the greatest scientists of the century and won 2 Nobel prizes, one for
physics in 1903 and one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and
studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, “Marie
Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.”
As a child she always wan ....
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