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| Working with her husband, Pierre Curie, French physicist Marie Curie discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium in 1898. The couple won a Nobel Prize for their efforts, making Marie Curie the first woman ever to win the award. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize for further work on radioactive compounds. | ||||||
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