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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. Panthéon - Wikipedia

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    Transferred to the Panthéon in April 1995 with his wife and fellow physicist Marie Curie. 1995 Marie Skłodowska Curie Nobel Laureate (1903 and 1911) 1867–1934 Scientist Crypt VIII Second woman to be buried in the Panthéon, but the first to be honoured on her own merit. 1996 André Malraux: 1901–1976 Writer and politician Crypt VI

  4. Category:Burials at the Panthéon, Paris - Wikipedia

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    This category lists people who were buried at the Panthéon in Paris. ... Marie Curie; Pierre Curie; D.

  5. Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument (Downtown, Warsaw)

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    The location was chosen as a place Skłodowska-Curie liked to visit. The monument consists of a bronze statue depicting her in an oversized laboratory apron, stylized like a dress. In her right hand she holds a representation of polonium, in form of a small sphere with six rings orbiting it, and encased within a square frame.

  6. Category:Monuments and memorials to Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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  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. List of burial places of classical musicians - Wikipedia

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    Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.

  9. Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument (Ochota) - Wikipedia

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    The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument (Polish: Pomnik Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie) is a bronze statue in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Skłodowska-Curie Park at the intersection Wawelska and Skłodowskiej-Curie Streets, and near the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, within the district of Ochota.