who was maria curie?

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discovered radium - Marie Curie

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Marie Curie
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This article is about the physicist and chemist Marie Skłodowska-Curie. For the school named after her, see École élémentaire Marie-Curie.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
Born November 7, 1867
Warsaw, Poland
Died July 4, 1934
Sancellemoz, France
Nationality Polish French
Field Physicist and chemist
Institution Sorbonne
Alma Mater Sorbonne and ESPCI
Academic Advisor Henri Becquerel
Notable Students André-Louis Debierne
Marguerite Catherine Perey
Known for Radioactivity
Notable Prizes Nobel Prize for Physics (1903)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1911)
The only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different science fields. Married to Pierre Curie (m. 1895), their children include Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France as Marie Curie, aka Madame Curie; Warsaw, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934, Sancellemoz, France) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in radioactivity, the first two-time Nobel laureate (the only one in two different sciences), and the first female professor at the Sorbonne.

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2 Prizes
3 Tribute
4 See also
5 Further reading
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She was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and lived there to age 24. In 1891 she went to Paris, France, to study science. She obtained her higher degrees and conducted nearly all her scientific work there, and became a naturalized French citizen. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris, France, and in her home town, Warsaw, in resurrected Poland.

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Maria Curie was a Russian female scientist who was married to a french Scientist who together set up a lab and discoverd the therapeutic properties of radium. Before she won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, she championed the campaign for the use of radium to alleviate suffering during the first world war. In 1911, she won another Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in radioactivity. for more information please check nobelprize.org

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Maria Curie was a Polish scientist who lived in France. She and her husband worked to-gether as chemists. She inadvertently discovered radium, a radio active substance which she found would help the fight against cancer.She worked with radio-active materials for many years, ignorant to the fact that they emit ed a death producing product. Consequently she developed cancer herself and died in 1934 at the age of 77years. There is now in existence a charity in her name to raise money for more research into cancer.

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Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in radioactivity.

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Marie Curie was a famous physicist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie She is famous for her discoveries in radioactivity and won 2 nobel prizes--unheard of for a woman at the time.

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Maire Curie was a polish-french physicist who was a great pioneer into radioactivity.

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You mean Marie Curie who discovered radium ? Look here ---> http://www.aip.org/history/curie/

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Marria Curie discoverd Uranim, and there is a JHS named after her in NYC

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A somewhat unlucky lady who, after receiving a Nobel Prize for Science died of cancer caused by her work with radiation. As people have said, mainly Radium.