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Physicist and chemist · 1867–1934 · Science
Discovered polonium and radium in a leaking shed, won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and drove X-ray vans to the Western Front.
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie, quoted in Madame Curie by Ève Curie
Maria Skłodowska studied in secret at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University before saving enough to reach the Sorbonne, where she lived on tea and bread and finished first in her physics degree. With Pierre Curie she processed tonnes of pitchblende in a converted shed to isolate polonium and radium, and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and Henri Becquerel. Pierre was killed by a horse-drawn wagon in 1906; she took over his chair, the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. Her 1911 Nobel in Chemistry made her the only person to win in two sciences. During the war she equipped mobile radiography units. She died of aplastic anaemia from radiation exposure.
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You can put that to the Marie Curie persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marie Curie’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1867–1934, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marie Curie persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marie Curie’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1867–1934, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marie Curie persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marie Curie’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1867–1934, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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