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    Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for her research on radiation. She later won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, founded the Curie Institutes, and developed mobile radiography units during WWI. Though a French citizen, she maintained her Polish identity and taught her daughters the Polish language.

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    Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for her research on radiation. She later won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, founded the Curie Institutes, and developed mobile radiography units during WWI. Though a French citizen, she maintained her Polish identity and taught her daughters the Polish language.

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    Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for her research on radiation. She later won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, founded the Curie Institutes, and developed mobile radiography units during WWI. Though a French citizen, she maintained her Polish identity and taught her daughters the Polish language.

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    Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/;[3] French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea

    Skłodowska;[a] 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist
    and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win
    a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel
    Prize in two different sciences. She was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She
    was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became
    the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

    She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire.
    She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training
    in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where
    she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903
    Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the
    1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

    Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term that she
    coined),[4][5] techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements,
    polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies into the treatment of
    neoplasms were conducted using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris
    and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I she
    developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.

    While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, who used both surnames,[6][7] never lost her
    sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to
    Poland.[8] She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native
    country.[b]

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