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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. List of couples awarded the Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Curie (1859–1906) Marie Skłodowska-Curie [a] (1867–1934) Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel." (awarded together with French physicist Henri Becquerel) [6] 1935 Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958) Irène ...

  6. 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.

  7. Marie Curie (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie is a Korean musical with book and lyrics by Seeun Choun and music by Jongyoon Choi. [1] The show tells the life story of Marie Curie from her arrival at the Sorbonne University in Paris to study, to her discovery of radium with husband Pierre and her winning the Nobel Prize .

  8. These 20 Vintage Postcards Offer a Rare Glimpse at Celebrity ...

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    Before the paparazzi and TMZ, we had to rely on celebrity postcards to get a glimpse into the private estates (and Christmas trees) of Hollywood’s finest.These vintage postcards from the 1920s ...

  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.