Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Marie Skłodowska Curie

On November 7, 1867 Marie Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, then in the Russian Empire.

She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won it twice. She won it in physics and chemistry.

She is famous for the development of the theory of radioactivity.

Marie Curie died in Paris on July 4, 1934.

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