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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. Treatise on Radioactivity - Wikipedia

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    Treatise on Radioactivity (French: Traité de Radioactivité) is a two-volume 1910 book written by the Polish scientist Marie Curie as a survey on the subject of radioactivity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was awarded her second Nobel Prize in the following year after the publication of the book. [ 4 ]

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    The discoveries of elements radium and polonium were made by Polish chemist Marie Curie through the deep study of their nature and their compounds. Rhenium Rhenium, a d-block transition metal with Atomic number 75, was first isolated by Ida Noddack and her husband. The existence of this element was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev. Ida Noddack was ...

  6. Irène Joliot-Curie - Wikipedia

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    Irène was born in Paris, France, on 12 September 1897 and was the first of Marie and Pierre's two daughters. Her sister was Ève, born in 1904. [6] They lost their father early on in 1906 due to a horse-drawn wagon incident and Marie was left to raise them. [6]

  7. The Dream of a Common Language - Wikipedia

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    The section, "Power," contains poems about noted accomplishments of individual women, that she relates to all women. The poem, "Power," discusses Marie Curie's discovery of two elements, polonium and radium, which made her powerful but eventually led to her death. The eight poems in this section comment on the need for the nature of power to be ...

  8. 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.

  9. Hélène Langevin-Joliot - Wikipedia

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    Hélène Langevin-Joliot (née Joliot-Curie; born 19 September 1927) is a French nuclear physicist known for her research on nuclear reactions in French laboratories and for being the granddaughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the daughter of Irene Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, all four of whom have received Nobel Prizes, in Physics (Pierre and Marie Curie) [2] or Chemistry ...