Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), renowned Polish physicist and chemist. She lived and worked in France. She was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne. Together with her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered polonium and radium in 1898. She was twice awarded the Nobel Prize: in 1903 for physics (jointly with her husband) for research on natural radiation, and in 1911 in chemistry, for the extraction of pure radium.
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