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    Marie 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, winning it in both Physics and Chemistry - making her the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, and her work aided the development of X-rays and radiology. She overcame barriers as a female scientist and became the first woman to teach at the University of Paris.

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    Marie 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, winning it in both Physics and Chemistry - making her the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She discovered the elements polonium and radium, and her work aided the development of X-rays and radiology. She overcame barriers as a female scientist and became the first woman to teach at the University of Paris.

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    MARIE CURIE Biography

    November 7, 1867.
    Warsow, Poland. 
    Radioactivity

    First woman to win a Nobel Prize.

    First and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize


    twice.

    Only person to win the Nobel Prize in two


    scientific fields.

    First woman to become a professor at


    the University of Paris.
    Childhood 

    She finished her studies with the best grades in her


    school. 
    Her parents were teachers. 
    Poland was occupied by Russia and Germany. 
    Her mother died of Tuberculosis. 
    ◦ She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University.
    ◦ She studied  physics, chemistry, and mathematics at
    the University of Paris. 
    ◦ She was rejected in many unversities for being a
    woman. 
    ◦ She married Pierre Curie, another scientist. 
    ◦ They had two daughters: Irene and Eve. 
    ◦ She discovered two chemical elements: the polonium
    and radium. 
    ◦ Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel
    Prize.
    ◦ Only person two received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    and another Physics.
    ◦ She was the first woman to become a professor at the
    University of Paris.
    ◦ She procured X-ray equipment. Invented radiography.  
    ◦ On 4 July 1934, she died in Poland from cancer due
    to her long-term exposure to radiation. 

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