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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
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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
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
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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
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