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  2. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  3. List of chemical elements named after people - Wikipedia

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    15 elements were named to honor 16 scientists (as curium honours both Marie and Pierre Curie). Four others have indirect connection to the names of non-scientists. [ 1 ] Only gadolinium and samarium occur in nature; the rest are man-made .

  4. List of female scientists in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie, 1867–1934, two time Nobel Laureate. This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare.

  5. List of women innovators and inventors by country - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie (1867–1934), pioneering research into radioactivity. Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]

  6. Solvay Conference - Wikipedia

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    The third Solvay Conference on Physics was held in April 1921, soon after World War I.Most German scientists were barred from attending. In protest at this action, Albert Einstein, although he had renounced German citizenship in 1901 and become a Swiss citizen (in 1896, he renounced his German citizenship, and remained officially stateless before becoming a Swiss citizen in 1901), [3] [4 ...

  7. List of scientists whose names are used as units - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie. Pierre Curie. 1867–1934 1859–1906 Polish, French Radioactivity: curie (Ci) Heinrich Mache: 1876–1954 Austrian: Radioactivity: Mache (ME) Peter Debye: 1884–1966: Dutch: Electric dipole moment: debye (D) Karl Guthe Jansky: 1905–1950: American: Spectral irradiance: jansky (JY) Wallace Clement Sabine: 1868–1919: American ...

  8. French minister intervenes to halt demolition of Marie Curie ...

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    Marie Curie’s Paris lab, where the Polish-born Nobel laureate pioneered groundbreaking research, gets a reprieve from demolition. Let’s keep the legacy of this extraordinary scientist alive ...

  9. Marguerite Perey - Wikipedia

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    Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie ...