Who was Marie Curie?
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Who was Marie Curie?
(Who HQ : your headquaters for history : who? what? where?, . The #1 New York Times best-selling series)
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, c2014
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Chronologies: p. 104-105
Includes bibliographical references (p. 106)
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Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.
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