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Name: Marie Curie
Where/When born: Warsaw, 7th November, 1867
Early years: very good at Mathematics and Physics,
1891 - went to study at Sorbonne University in Paris
Achievements: 1898 – discovered polonium and
radium, 1903 - won Nobel Prize in Physics, 1911 -
won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Later years: 1906 - first woman professor at the
Sorbonne, promoted X-ray machines during First
World War
Where/
When died: Savoy, France, 4th July, 1934
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