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Marie Curie
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Born
November 7
,
1867
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Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Died
July 4
,
1934
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Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France
(blood cancer)
Birth name
Maria Salomea Sklodowska
Height
5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
Mini Bio
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was married to Pierre Curie. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France.
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Pierre Curie
(July 25, 1895 - April 19, 1906) (his death, 2 children)
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During her studies, she lived in near-poverty on a diet of tea and toast.
She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win it in two fields (Physics and Chemistry).
She founded the Curie Institute which has headquarters in both Paris and Warsaw.
She studied at the Sorbonne Institute in Paris and later became the first woman to be made a professor there.
Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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