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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. Marie Curie (charity) - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie was founded in 1948. The Marie Curie Hospital was founded in Hampstead, North London in 1930.It was staffed entirely by women to treat female cancer patients using radiology and had some research facilities too.

  4. List of Clone High characters - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie (voiced by Sullivan), a clone who was morbidly deformed due to the exposure to radiation that was in her clone-mother's DNA. She is a sweet girl and has a ...

  5. List of female nominees for the Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. [5] Of the currently revealed female nominees both in physics and chemistry, the notable scientists Henrietta Swan Leavitt , Astrid Cleve , Harriet Brooks , Alice Ball , Mileva Marić , Inge ...

  6. Curie family - Wikipedia

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    The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of distinguished scientists. Polish-born Marie Skłodowska-Curie , her French husband Pierre Curie , their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie , and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie , are its most prominent members.

  7. Pierre Curie - Wikipedia

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    The Curie is a unit of measurement (3.7 × 10 10 decays per second or 37 gigabecquerels) used to describe the intensity of a sample of radioactive material and was named after Marie and Pierre Curie by the Radiology Congress in 1910.

  8. Irène Joliot-Curie - Wikipedia

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    Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ⓘ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.

  9. The Radium Woman - Wikipedia

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    The first seven chapters concern Marie Curie's early life, which was spent in a Poland unwillingly incorporated into the Russian Empire.The book begins with the five-year-old Manya Sklodovski in her family home in Warsaw, already aware of the power of the Russian officials, and later describes the ten-year-old schoolgirl's experience of secretly learning forbidden Polish history with her class.