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Marie Curie's Second Nobel Prize

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Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists that ever lived. She was born in November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland and is a Polish-born French physicist who is famous for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is the first women professor; the first woman who receives a Nobel Prize; the first person ever to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. Together, her husband, Pierre Curie and she found the radioactive elements Radium and Polonium. After the couple discovery of Radium and Polonium, Marie continued to work on their discovery. In 1910, her discovery of Radium elements brings her second Nobel Prize. Looking at Marie’s achievements, it is not hard to

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