Marie Curie

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Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Polish:[ˈmarjasalɔˈmɛaskwɔˈdɔfskakʲiˈri]; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (KURE-ee, French:[maʁikyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw'

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