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Marie Curie: Two Nobels, Two Sciences
Marie Curie, Nobel Prizes in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
The Modern Polymath@modern_polymath•2 min read
From Warsaw to Paris1 / 3
Maria Skłodowska grew up in Warsaw at a time when women could not attend university there. She moved to Paris in 1891, studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and lived on very little to do it.
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Determination often looks like patient, unglamorous sacrifice.
A New Kind of Radiation2 / 3
With Pierre Curie she investigated the mysterious rays emitted by uranium, coined the term radioactivity and discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. In 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel.
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Naming a phenomenon is often the first step to understanding it.
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