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Marie Curie was a pioneering scientist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made significant contributions to physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

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Marie Curie was a pioneering scientist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made significant contributions to physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

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Marie Curie is the person who made an impact in the history of science and society and we will

tell you why.

Marie Curie was born In times were soviets had control over Poland. That means 1867 in a family
of educators

Her father, a teacher, influences her daughter to science, math, physics. And she learned really
faster (At the age of 4 she could read perfectly).She had to study in secret because (Remember
Poland was under the power of soviets) and she always was the best in the class.

Then she went to Paris and lived with great economics limitations. But that doesn’t stop her and
still she was the best in mathematics and physics and she graduated with a phD (Keep in mind this
was in the finals of 19th century).

In 1895 she married with Pier Curie.

She and her husband would conform the best scientific collaboration in the history.

She made 2 great contributions to the history of the science: she demonstrated that the
radioactivity is an atomic phenomenon and could help us to discover new elements.

Pier Curie and Henry Beck Eller (The person that is in the left side of Pier) were nominated to the
Nobel prize for discovering and studying the radioactivity but Pier Curie refused to this prize
because they excluded to Marie the commission reconsider and they included Marie Curie

becoming the first woman winning a Nobel prize in the history. Blowing up the ideas and position
of women in that time. SO she put the seed for Inspiring a whole new generation of changings.

After being exposed to radioactivity materials, they started feeling really bad. In 1906 pier die
because he felt down and a wheel pass across his crane. Marie felt in depression and then with the
help of her daughter se would continue her investigations.

In 1911, Marie won the second Nobel prize (Being the first person in the history winning 2 Nobel
prizes). In this case was in chemistry for discovering polonium and radius.

When the first world war started she created portable x –rays that attended over 1.000.000
soldiers.

In 1934 she pass away for the radioactivity that she studied so much.

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