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Marie Curie
Also Known As Maria Salomea Sklodowska Her birth name in Warsaw, before her marriage to Pierre Curie in Paris. · Madame Curie
Polish-French
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The Polish-French physicist and chemist who, with Pierre Curie, established the science of radioactivity, a word she coined, discovering polonium and radium in 1898. Twice a Nobel laureate, in physics and in chemistry, she opened the study of energy locked inside the atomic nucleus, the thread that leads to nuclear power.
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Defining ContributionFounding the science of radioactivity; discovery of polonium and radium, 1898 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The science of radioactivity she founded is the root of nuclear energy; she did not work on reactors, which came after her death.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Curie is the subject of numerous biographies, including Madame Curie by her daughter Eve.
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Uranium, History, DiscoveryQuote, Associated With: Uranium, History, Discovery
While he was working in his experimental laboratory in Berlin in 1789, Klaproth was able to precipitate a yellow compound.
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