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    youngest of five siblings, Zosia, Józef, Bronya, and Hela. As a child Curie was said to take after her father, Wladyslaw, a math and physics instructor. She was a bright child and excelled at school. But when she was only 10, Curie lost her mother, Bronislawa, to tuberculosis. Marie received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She was a top student in her secondary school, but Curie could not attend the men-only University of Warsaw. She instead continued

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    was never a possibility because of her lack of money, but when her sister offered her housing in Paris, France with a view of going to a university there, she took the opportunity and moved to France with her sister in 1891.In Paris in 1894, she Pierre Curie, who was a scientist working in the city, and married him the next year. It was also around this time that she took up the French spelling of her name: Marie. It is this name that is the most known and most used. The Curies became research workers

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    and organizations as a woman. This is Marie Curie. Marie Curie was, and still is, a highly celebrated scientist and person today. Curie revolutionized the field of physics and chemistry with her findings, but that was not the only thing she did. Through her accomplishments, Curie empowered women by sparking the women’s rights movement. This incredible woman did all these things in life while being a loyal and dedicated wife and mother. Marie Curie was a powerful figure who benefitted society

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    This is about a scientist who has succeeded in Chemistry and Physics, won two Nobel prizes, and done many other achievements. This scientist is the famous Marie Skłodowska Curie. She has done many things in her lifetime. She was poor and didn’t have a really good education but soon after she became the first scientist to find out about radioactivity and other things. She has even done good things that benefited the world. This all started on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland because this was day

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    Marie Daly Marie Daly is a famous biochemist who had to overcome dual hurdles of racial and gender bias to peruse her lifelong love of chemistry. Marie had to undergo judgment from her being a woman and trying to become a scientist, which was a male dominated occupation and also had to endure racism because she was an African American. Marie made many scientific discoveries that we are lucky to have today. Marie Daly’s full name is Marie Maynard Daly. Marie was born on April 16th 1921 in Queens

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    Marie Curie or Louis Pasteur. Well, i'm here to voice my opinion to you all. Marie Curie was an spectacular at her studies when she was younger. Being born in Poland, opportunities for studies were limited so she went to Paris. After working as a governess, she studied in Sorbonne, Paris. She struggled to learn in French, so she studied more and more. She eventually got a degree in physics and finished at the top of her school. After that she got a degree in math. In Paris,she met Pierre Curie

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    Anne Frank and Marie Curie have changed the world in many ways. “Marie Curie was a polish scientist who was born on November 7 1867 in Warsaw Poland” (www.newsactivist.com . Marie Curie was best known for her scientific discoveries and her work in medicine” (Anthony Guerriero April 21, 2013). Anne Frank was a girl who hid from the Nazis with her family. Nazis came after her and her family because they were Jewish. (Biography.com) Both of them were very smart women. Anne made impact because of her

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    During the early years of the Western countries, women did not have the same rights and privileges as men. For example, women could not to vote and they should surrender the control of their property to their husband because of marriage. In ancient China, women could not have any education. As the time passed, the world was changed, the rights of women are rising. The word “gender” in the dictionary is means “the physical and/or social condition of being male or female.” (Cambridge Dictionary). According

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    Along with her husband, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium, and coined the term of radioactivity. She was an amazing pioneer for women in science, being the first female professor at the University of Paris and the first woman to be buried at the Parthenon for her own achievements. In addition, she received 2 Nobel Prizes, one in Chemistry and one in Physics, and is one of only two people to ever win 2 awards in separate sciences, along with being the first woman to win one

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    Over one hundred years ago, in 1911, a French-polish woman was awarded not her first but second Nobel Peace Prize. This time for discovering a new element. She was awarded, “"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." This was and still is a fascinating and remarkable element. Radium has had an intense history of misuse which

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