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Marie Curie was born on november 7th of 1867 in Varsovia, a former occupied country by Russia.

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Marie had to resort to the so-called "Flying University", a clandestine institution, because the University of Warsaw didn't admit women.

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In 1891, after changing her name to Marie, she enrolled at the University of Paris that her sister paid for, where she studied physics, chemistry and math.

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In 1893 she took a degree in physics and in 1894, she took a degree in mathematics with the help of a scholarship.

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She began her scientific career in 1894 with research on the magnetic properties of various steels commissioned by the Society for the Promotion of National Industry.

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In 1894 Marie met Pierre Curie, a French physicist. They developed a deep friendship, to the point that Pierre proposed to her. At first she declined his proposal as she intended to return to Poland. However, we can say that science united them on July 26, 1895. After the wedding, the couple devoted their lives to research.

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In 1897, the couple began their studies, in which they included some minerals with uranium such as pitchblende, torbernite or autunite. Most of their research was carried out in a shed that was poorly ventilated and they were not aware of the harmful effects to which they would be exposed.

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Marie gave birth to two baby girls.
During her 2nd year of marriage, on 1897, her first daughter, Irène, was born.

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In July 1898, the couple published a joint article announcing the existence of an element they named "polonium", and on December 26, 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, which they called "radius". In research the word "radioactivity" was coined.

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In 1903, in recognition of their joint investigations into the radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel, together with him and Pierre Curie, Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first woman to receive the precious award.

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Her second and last daughter, Ève, was born on 1904.

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On April 19, 1906, Pierre died as a result of an accident in Paris. Although Marie was devastated, she wanted to carry on her late husband's jobs and she turned down an annuity. During the following years, Marie would suffer from depressive episodes, although she found support in Pierre's family. On May 13, 1906, the Physics Department of the University of Paris decided to offer her the position of her husband and she accepted with the hope of creating a world-class laboratory as a tribute to her husband. Marie was the first woman to hold a professorship at that university and the first director of a laboratory at that institution. Between 1906 and 1934, the university admitted 45 women without applying the previous gender restrictions in their hiring.

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In 1910, Marie demonstrated that one gram of pure radium could be obtained and the following year, in 1911, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone.
Due to radioactive contamination, his documents from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even his cookbook is highly radioactive. Marie Curie 's works are kept in boxes lined with lead, and those who wish to consult them must wear special clothing.

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Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 near Salanches, France, from aplastic anemia, likely contracted as a result of continued exposure to radiation. Her body was placed in a coffin lined with about an inch of lead. Both she and her husband Pierre are buried in the Pantheon in Paris.