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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by

the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the
isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of
this remarkable element"

Marie Curie, née

Sklodowska

France

Sorbonne University
Paris, France

b. 1867
(in Warsaw, Poland, then
Russian Empire)

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d. 1934

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