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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)


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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) won both the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and was the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris. Curie was a Polish-French chemist who was a pioneer of radiology and was instrumental in the discovery and isolation of the elements polonium and radium. Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anaemia which was almost certainly caused by massive exposure to radiation in her work. She was known to carry test tubes full of radioactive isotopes in her pocket, and to remark on the attractive light the metals gave off in the dark.

 
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