Marie Curie

Marie Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. After 1891, when she moved to France, she became famous for her work in radioactivity and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. In 1903 she and her husband, Pierre Curie, shared with Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their investigation of radioactivity, which Becquerel discovered. Later in 1911 she was the sole winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for the isolation of pure radium. Not only was Marie Curie the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, but she was also the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

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