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Known for
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Pioneering the study of radioactivity and discovering the radioactive elements radium and polonium
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Winning the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Antoine Henri Becquerel
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Winning the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and becoming the first scientist to receive the award in two different scientific categories
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Career
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1891 Entered the Sorbonne (now part of the Universities of Paris) to study physics and mathematics
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1898 Discovered the radioactive elements radium and polonium with her husband, Pierre Curie
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1903 Received her doctorate in physics from the Sorbonne
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1906 Became professor of general physics and the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne
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1914 Equipped ambulances with X-ray equipment to be used on the front lines of World War I
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1918-1934 Directed the Research Department at the Radium Institute of the University of Paris
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Did You Know
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Marie Curie was the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris, and the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
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Marie Curie died of leukemia brought on by her prolonged exposure to radioactivity. The notebooks she used are still radioactive.
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Marie Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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The element curium, discovered in 1944, was named in honor of Marie and her husband, Pierre.
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