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Marie Skłodowska (Marie Curie) and her sister Bronisława Skłodowska

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Also Known As	Maria Salomea Skłodowska
Born	November 7, 1867 • Warsaw • Poland
Died	July 4, 1934 (aged 66) • France
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1911) • Nobel Prize (1903)
Notable Family Members	spouse Pierre Curie • daughter Irène Joliot-Curie • daughter Ève Curie
Subjects Of Study	pitchblende • polonium • radioactivity • radium

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Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie

French chemist

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

French chemist

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist

Francis William Aston.

Francis William Aston

British physicist and chemist

Becquerel, Henri

Henri Becquerel

French physicist

Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann

French physicist

Charles Édouard Guillaume

French physicist

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

French physicist

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

German physicist and philosopher

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

Italian-American physicist

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian physicist

Langmuir, Irving

Irving Langmuir

American chemist

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Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn

German chemist

James Chadwick

James Chadwick

British physicist

Venki Ramakrishnan

Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist

Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez

American physicist

Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Holly Compton

American physicist

Carlo Rubbia

Italian physicist

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