Marie curie

Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who made pioneering research.   She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (also only woman to win twice), the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes being the only girl scientist in her family. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own work in Paris.
She was born Maria in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's Floating University and began her scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891 at the age of 24 she followed her older sister to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and did scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her achievements in her life included a theory of radioactivity , techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
While in france, Marie Curie  never lost her polish identity. She taught her daughters the language and took them on short visits to Poland.Marie Curie died on July 4th, 1934 due to radiation in the test tubes that she had been
carrying in her coat pocket.

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